On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Eric Hillman wrote: > I'm having a problem with a mailman list... It's got about 1700 members, all of > whom were added administratively -- and it appears that a lot of them have bogus > or misspelled addresses. > > At the moment, if I try to approve a message to go out to the list, nothing > (apparently) happens -- "top" shows me that "python" is churning away, but the > webpage just times out. I'm guessing this is because of the problem above, > although it could just be that my P133 doesn't have the horsepower to get > through all those names... The log files are no help whatsoever here. lsof > seems to indicate that tcp connections are being opened, so it's possible I just > spammed the first n-1 people on the list with this message... > > Anyways, my questions are -- is there any way to dump the userlist so I can > start trying to sort the valid addresses from the bad ones? They appear to be > stored in a hash file, something of which I have only the most tenuous grasp. > Also, is it possible I'm barking up the wrong tree, and that there's something > else going wrong here? Could be that it's taking too much time to process the page (I've heard of problems with browsers timing out when using the web interface on a large list of users.) Anyways, to dump the userlist: ~/mailman/bin/list_members <list_name> -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org