[Mailman-Users] remove messages from Mailman queue

me at electronico.nc me at electronico.nc
Tue Feb 16 22:50:26 CET 2010


Mailman 2.1.12

Hi all,

One email address was mistyped in a list and I receive tons of emails a 
day about :
Postfix SMTP server: errors from localhost[127.0.0.1]

I went to Mailman queue and here is the queue contents :

ls -Rlha /var/lib/mailman/qfiles
/var/lib/mailman/qfiles:
total 48K
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 .
drwxrwsr-x  8 list list 4,0K 2010-02-08 21:14 ..
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-16 17:03 archive
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 bad
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-15 13:36 bounces
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-11 19:22 commands
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-16 17:03 in
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-08 21:40 news
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-17 08:35 out
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-17 08:35 retry
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-08 21:40 shunt
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-16 12:00 virgin

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/archive:
total 8,0K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-16 17:03 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/bad:
total 16K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..
-rw-rw----  1 list list 4,6K 2010-02-09 12:00 
1265677201.538301+ff2998155195d0f6d06604e67777ba8ccfff2cf2.psv

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/bounces:
total 8,0K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-15 13:36 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/commands:
total 8,0K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-11 19:22 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/in:
total 8,0K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-16 17:03 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/news:
total 8,0K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-08 21:40 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/out:
total 8,0K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-17 08:35 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/retry:
total 180K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-17 08:35 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..
-rw-rw----  1 list list 4,8K 2010-02-17 08:35 
1265961379.78371+f52f95dafd795b376b6f236266a30656762e9312.pck
-rw-rw----  1 list list 4,8K 2010-02-17 08:35 
1265962377.1492419+ab429d4da967b4e5d73a49b9ad9c15da63938e4d.pck
-rw-rw----  1 list list 3,8K 2010-02-17 08:35 
1265963302.2198579+e23759d849358c41e5cb65734c68113e03940d53.pck
-rw-rw----  1 list list  53K 2010-02-17 08:35 
1266005255.3434069+05885e1413d12056b100ec76122a9ed15fe52aee.pck
-rw-rw----  1 list list 5,5K 2010-02-17 08:35 
1266181576.168088+374f21f5a8cbeb5d1b634327d8e37f145c3aca06.pck
-rw-rw----  1 list list  74K 2010-02-17 08:35 
1266183850.9198849+cae961d9f131124aec881c1aca55e7a2405d9f7c.pck
-rw-rw----  1 list list 5,1K 2010-02-17 08:35 
1266192566.7376809+2c441fed9eccdede5580771ad81d47a2870c6a66.pck
-rw-rw----  1 list list 1,5K 2010-02-17 08:35 
1266209411.1881809+530cd317167b0a37421ef71f51fd739dbaa4e58f.pck

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/shunt:
total 8,0K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-08 21:40 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..

/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/virgin:
total 8,0K
drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-16 12:00 .
drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..


My question is : can I safely manually remove (rm) files from qfiles/bad 
and qfiles/retry or is there another way to proceed ?

Thanks in advance for your time.
Nicolas Canonne


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