John Drescher wrote: >> There may be a few stragglers yet, but the bulk of the queued >> mail is now gone, so hopefully we're finally done. My apologies >> for not understanding where this mail was queued sooner; I could >> have stopped this last night if I had understood it. >> > The flow appears to be done for me as well. Thanks for fixing that. Good to hear. I'm writing this email so that it can go in the mailing list archive, so that if something like this happens in the future, I can find this thread, and use it to more quickly address the problem. The thing I should have done faster, but did not, was flush the exim outbound queue. It turns out that these emails were mostly queued there; in hind sight, that is obvious. (That's tricky; mail queues are not exactly databases with easy 'click here to delete all the emails people don't want' buttons, but it is doable. Main commands are mailq; exim4 -Mvh, exim4 -Mvb, and exim4 -Mm). The main thing I still do not know is how to see what the mailman queue looks like. Further, I was misled by an odd apparent queuing behavior; I'd see files appear and disappear in /var/lib/mailmain/qfiles/news, and assume that I needed to figure out why the heck that was happening in order to solve the problem. (I still need to figure out exactly why that happens, but I should have gone to the exim queue faster). The two key scripts are /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news, which is what brings email in from the newsgroup, and /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/NewsRunner.py, which sends the news out. /var/log/mailman/fromusenet is errors from the former, and /var/log/mailman/error reports the latter. The admin interface for the list does have the essential elements, though. Also, this apparently happened once last fall at some point, but only 300 messages or so were caught up, so folks didn't scream at me then. Alright, that's enough for posterity. Cheers, Jeremy _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
