[Leaplist] LEAP server email issue

[Hank Lambert]

What? More fun than rebooting the firewall in the middle of an 
installfest? Doubt it.

--Hank

John Simpson wrote:
> 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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