[Mailman-Users] removing LOTS of messages from Queue

[J C Lawrence]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:37:14 -0400 
Jonathan Andrew Sheen <jsheen at leviathanstudios.com> wrote:

> Okay, so a mailing list I set up had several severely bogus
> addresses in it.  Each of these takes something like _six_
> _minutes_ _per_ _attempt_ to fail, and it's causing a huge
> slowdown in the list.

Translation:  Your MTA is configured to do DNS lookups or verifies
on messages received from Mailman.  

Solution:  Fix your MTA config.

> How do I blow all messages to a particular address out of
> mailman's queue?

You can manually edit the files in ~/qfiles, but its not entirely
trivial.

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