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[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

address@concealed wrote:
> 
> I'm using sympa 2.7a on a linux server with mysql. My list has more than 
> 50,000
>  subscribers. It's an announcement only list and I am the only person 
> authorized to 
> send messages to the members. My problem is that somehow a message with the 
> sircam 
> virus in an attached filed has gone into the system and is being sent to 
> all the
>  subscribers. I didn't send this message (my computer is virus free) and I 
> still 
> don't know what happened. 

For such big lists you should setup your list with (send editorkeyonly) ; it
will always require a confirmation from you before sending a message.

> I already changed the owner address to avoid more messages 
> being sent, but my urgent problem is to stop the messages from sending.
> 
> I stopped sendmail as a provisional measure but I don't know if there is a 
> way to 
> erase a message from the queue directly from sympa, so that it is not sent 
> to the 
> whole list. I tried editing sendmail mqueue but when I restart sendmail the 
> messages
>  restart to be sent too.
> 
> Please, I'd really appreciate a quick answer. I don't want to send virus 
> infected 
> messages to my subscribers.

First kill Sympa (kill -9 `cat /home/sympa/sympa.pid`) so it does not run 
sendmail
processes anymore. Later you will need to delete the message in spool/msg/ ; 
otherwise it will process it again at startup.

You should kill all you outgoing sendmail processes, as well as the one 
reading
the mqueue (sendmail -qxx). That

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités