[Leaplist] LEAP server email issue

[John Simpson]

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howdy all-

phil is out of town, i'm one of the people who are babysitting the  
server in his absence. (my specialty is the mail server software, the  
kludged-up version of qmail used by plesk, but not the mailing list  
software, mailman.)

there was an "issue" with the LEAP server... something went badly  
wrong, the queue ended up containing over 600,000 messages, and the  
flaky version of qmail used by plesk apparently doesn't know how to  
handle that much mail all at once.

rather than take two days to look at all of the messages and try to  
figure out what actually went wrong, i deleted the entire queue. (if  
you're curious, it took 22 minutes to delete 4.3GB of mail.) (and yes,  
it was even more fun than rebooting the firewall in the middle of an  
installfest.)

so if you've sent anything through the lists and haven't seen it by  
now, you should probably send it again.

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| John M. Simpson  --  KG4ZOW  --  Programmer At Large |
| http://www.jms1.net/                 <jms1 at jms1.net> |
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|   Hope for America  --  http://www.ronpaul2008.com/  |
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