[Mailman-Users] emergency moderation doesn't work

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu Feb 3 20:45:09 CET 2005


At 2:35 PM -0500 2005-02-03, Flip Side wrote:

>  BUT MESSAGES ARE STILL GETTING OUT to the members who
>  are no longer "subscribed" to the list.

	They're probably in the MTA queue.  Mailman has already handed 
those messages off to your mail server, and they had not yet been 
delivered.  Now they are.

	When you want to clean up the queue of a mailing list server, you 
have to take care of both the Mailman and the MTA queues.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>

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     -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
     Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

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