On 6/26/23 4:19 PM, Ken Alker wrote:
What else is stored in /var/messages, if not archives? I see 4711 messages in that directory (which I presume would be as many messages are in the archive database). If there is a write-up on this, feel free to point me to it. I found <https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/build/lib/mailman/model/docs/messagestore.html> but this isn't really answering my question.
These are probably artifacts from your old Debian package. There have been issues in the past with handled messages not being removed from the message store. See https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/257
This was fixed in 3.3.5 and the task runner implemented in 3.3.5 removes orphaned messages from the message store, but if they are still referenced in pendings they won't be deleted.
I didn't think so, but I'll certainly buy that. So, I'm assuming by this you are implying that there is no helper function that needed to run and the number of held messages should have dropped to zero immediately upon a refresh of the web page?
Correct, assuming your changes were committed.
So if I run the script, exist the shell, then come back in again, I can't rely on the request.id being the same? I'd need to re-run the script and get a new request.id?
No. The request id for a given held message won't change.
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