[Mailman-Users] Missing pending requests

[Mark Sapiro]

Nigel Allen wrote:
>
>Sorry - should have added:
>
>Follow the link in the notification email but get a:
>
>
>> Mailman Administrative Database
>> There are no pending requests.
>
>
>N/
>
>
>On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 10:38, Nigel Allen wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> Ever since we had a screwed up mailman list and corrected it, we have
>> been getting the message below.
>> 
>> 
>> > The xxx at foo.bar mailing list has 2 request(s) waiting
>> > for your consideration at:
>> > 
>> >         http://www.foo.bar/mailman/admindb/mailman
>> >         
>> > Please attend to this at your earliest convenience.  This notice of
>> > pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily.
>> > 
>> 
>> We've deleted the xxx mailing list and recreated it but still get the
>> same message every morning.
>> 
>> Can anyone enlighten me as to what triggers this please? I just want to
>> get rid of them. They were an "accidental" subscribe
>> 

Both cron/checkdbs which sends the daily reminder and Cgi/admindb.py
which produces the

>> Mailman Administrative Database
>> There are no pending requests.

message use the exact same method mlist.NumPendingRequests() to
determine how many requests there are. I don't see how they can
produce different results unless they are somehow importing different
versions of ListAdmin.py where the NumPendingRequests() method is
defined.

There was a change from 2.1.4 to 2.1.5. The earlier versions keep the
requests in a marshal lists/<listname>/request.db, and 2.1.5 and up
keep them in a pickle lists/<listname>/request.pck.

Do you possibly have an older Mailman version in a different location
and referenced by the cron jobs?

One thing you can do is go to the lists/<listname>/ directory and
remove request\.* and then go to the admindb page for the list which
will create a new request.pck (assuming 2.1.5+) just by virtue of your
visiting the page. This may help.

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