Developers of Sympa

["Kristina Clair" <address@concealed>]

>> Note, however, that this spool is used only :
>>    - until version 5.4.7. After that, its equivalent is in database ;
>>    - if you run the "distribute" mode of Sympa, in which Sympa forks
>> into two processes, one of them scanning the distribute spool. It is
>> activated by setting the "distribution_mode" parameter value to "fork".
>>
>
> hmmm. We are not specifying distribution_mode="fork", yet this spool is
> clearly being used.  And also, despite that I now see how it should be
> cleaned, it is not being cleaned. It has messages in it from June 2009 up
> until today!  we are running 6.0.1.
>

Whoops! I apologize. We *are* using fork.  So in this case, the messages
should be cleaned out, right?  We're certainly using the default value of
clean_delay_queue.

> Thanks,
> Kristina
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David
>>
>> Le 29/03/2010 16:02, Kristina Clair a écrit :
>>>> Hi Kristina,
>>>>
>>>> The distribute/bad messages are cleaned after some time - one week, if
>>>> I
>>>> remember well.
>>>> Actually, paul was right: clean_delay_queue is the parameter you're
>>>> looking for.
>>>> The parameter setting the bounce/bad retention period is
>>>> clean_delay_queuebounce.
>>>> Please have a look at
>>>> https://www.sympa.org/manual/conf-parameters/part2#clean_delay_queue
>>>> for
>>>> this family of parameter.
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm really confused. I don't see at all how clean_delay_bouncequeue is
>>> effecting *both* distribute/bad and bounce/bad. It only seems to me to
>>> be
>>> cleaning out bounce/bad.  We have clean_delay_bouncequeue set at the
>>> default, and we have messages in distribute/bad that are now several
>>> years
>>> old.
>>>
>>> What am I missing here? :)
>>>
>>> Kristina
>>>
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> Le 27/03/2010 18:56, Kristina Clair a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Kristina,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am Samstag, den 27.03.2010, 08:38 -0700 schrieb Kristina Clair:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a reason why there is no configuration option and
>>>>>>> associated
>>>>>>> functionality to remove messages from the distribute/bad spool
>>>>>>> after
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> certain length of time?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is `clean_delay_queue` the parameter you are looking for?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> No, this cleans the messages in the bounce/bad queue. I want to clean
>>>>> the
>>>>> messages in distirbute/bad.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Kristina
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David Verdin
>>>> Comité réseau des universités
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> David Verdin
>> Comité réseau des universités
>>
>>
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