Often, after an approval happens, the message disappears into the abyss (mailman 1.1). I don't know why. This seems to happen on my list when there is an MIME attachment. It does end up in the archive, but it never gets mailed. When 2.0 comes out, I can only hope this is fixed. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Hillman <ehillman at cccu.com> To: Tclug-List at Mn-Linux. Org <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 9:34 AM Subject: [TCLUG:20567] Any "mailman" users here? > 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? > > -- > Eric Hillman > UNIX Sysadmin/Webmaster > City & County Credit Union > ehillman at cccu.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org