On 5/7/23 08:39, Christian via Mailman-users wrote:

Can/should old messages residing in queue/shunt be manually removed? I see they were delivered. Is there any reason to leave them there? Thank you!!

If they were delivered, they shouldn't be in queue/shunt/. Messages are shunted (placed in queue/shunt/) because of some exception in processing that caused processing to be aborted. It is possible for a message to be shunted even though it was delivered if the exception that caused it to be shunted occurred in the archive runner or the digest runner.

When a message is shunted, an entry is made in mailman.log indicating the reason and giving a traceback. This information can be used to determine if there is some issue in Mailman that caused the exception, and if so, that issue can be fixed and the message's processing continued via mailman unshunt. Also, pointing mailman qfile at the shunted .pck file will not only display the raw message, but also metadata indicating which queue was being processed when the exception occurred.

In any case, If the message is not going to be unshunted because it was spam or too old to be relevant or whatever, it should be removed from queue/shunt/ if for no other reason than so a future mailman unshunt won't requeue it.

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