[Mailman-Users] held messages via command line

[Mark Sapiro]

Al Black wrote:
>
>However, we've got a whack (i.e., several 1000) held messages for the
>list "Mailman".  Both "bin/discard data/heldmsg-<listname>-*"
>and "find data -name heldmsg-<listname>-\* -print | xargs bin/discard"
>stall when I use them.  Even when I use bin/discard for a single held
>message, it stalls.  


There is probably a stale lock for the list. Look in Mailman's locks/
directory for stale locks. A lock is two files, one named
<listname>.lock and one named
<listname>.lock.<hostname>.<pid>.<sequence>. If you find old locks for
the mailman list, especially with a non-existant pid, just delete them.

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