On 10/23/20 8:31 PM, Alex Schuilenburg via Mailman-users wrote:

We're migrating from 2.1 to 3.2.1 and an odd issue has popped up.  It may be something different in the way mailman3 works, or a misconfiguration on my part.

Most of the lists migrated so far don't have moderators, just owners.  However, when these lists have messages requiring moderation, the owners dont get notified of held messages - unlike 2.1 where they did.  Is this a change or is there something I am missing in the configuration?

I have the minute/quarterly/hourly etc cron jobs running, although I have had to tune down the frequency of minute to hourly as it takes 6.5 minutes to run* - but I doubt this is the cause.

While for the moment I have found the held messages in files in /var/lib/mailman3/messages and figured out which lists are in need of attention (and notified the owners), it seems I may have to do a bit of coding myself to walk through the lists and notify owners when their list is in need of attention.  There must surely be something that does this already - or is this moderators only in mailman3?

Guidance appreciated.

Thanks

-- Alex

• From the list I realise this is because I am still using the default whoosh backend to haystack and need urgently to switch to xapian or solr, but the info on how to get this working for a noob like me is unfortunately lacking

Hi Alex,

List owners should be receiving moderation notifications and are able to moderate messages when they log into Postorius. Have you checked your MTA logs to see if they are or are not being sent out?

If you don't mind having some paid assistance, I may be able to assist you with getting Xapian up and running. We use Xapian on our vanilla MM3 servers and Elasticsearch on our MM3 Affinity/Empathy servers. You can contact me off list if you are interested.

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On 10/23/20 5:31 PM, Alex Schuilenburg via Mailman-users wrote:

Most of the lists migrated so far don't have moderators, just owners.  However, when these lists have messages requiring moderation, the owners dont get notified of held messages - unlike 2.1 where they did.  Is this a change or is there something I am missing in the configuration?

As Brian said, owners as well as moderators should be notified.

These notices are sent immediately if admin_immed_notify is True. If not, only periodic notices are sent. This needs to be run by cron.

I have the minute/quarterly/hourly etc cron jobs running, although I have had to tune down the frequency of minute to hourly as it takes 6.5 minutes to run* - but I doubt this is the cause.

Those are Django tasks and don't affect this. You also need to run mailman digests --periodic to send periodic digests (see <https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/commands/docs/digests.html>) and mailman notify to send periodic moderator notices (see <https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/commands/docs/notify.html>).

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