I've gone into the exim queue and surgically removed all mail that was queued to go to wine-users between 39 and 41 hours ago; there was quite a lot pending in that range, and it seemed to correlate to the newsgroup catchup. Hopefully that will stop this flood, and I also hope that I haven't harmed any other emails. (I did my best to limit it strictly to wine-users, and there is a clear argument that wine-users is unusable anyways atm). 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. Finally, thanks to those few of you that wrote to me directly; I sort my mail (and take wine-users via digest), so I was slow to clue in to the problem. Direct email helped with the clue bat. Cheers, Jeremy Cristian Falcas wrote: > It seems I reached september now. A few other thousand (maybe tens of > thousands) and it should be ALL normal. > Great job. > > On 3/20/07, *Jeremy White* < jwhite@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:jwhite@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > John Drescher wrote: > >> We did system maintenance on the WineHQ server yesterday. > >> > >> Apparently, the gateway between the newsgroup and the mailing > >> list has been broken, and has been broken for some time. > >> > >> The mail flood is the result of that break being repaired, > >> so that the two are now linked again. (You can see that the > >> emails flooding to wine-users are ones that originally were > >> posted to the newsgroup). > >> > > Any idea when this will end? I have received over 400 messages and I > > seem to still get around 10 of these emails to my gmail box every 5 > > minutes. > > Well, no, and the mystery deepens. That is, I poked around in log > files and such trying to remember how the gateway is configured. > > And the gateway is configured to use an NNTP server provided by > our old ISP, which rejects our queries, and has for quite some time > now. > > I spent the afternoon trying to figure this out, but have now > essentially > run out of time. > > I've disabled the gateway between news and mail in the hopes that > will stem the tide of old messages. Once I figure out a news server > that will listen to me, I'll see about rebridging it > (although, arguably, a completely different solution may be more > appropriate). > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx> > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
