[Wine] Mailing list going beserk (Done!?!)
Jeremy White
jwhite at winehq.org
Wed Mar 21 09:05:36 CDT 2007
I've gone into the exim queue and surgically removed all
mail that was queued to go to wine-users between 39 and 41 hours ago;
there was quite a lot pending in that range, and it seemed
to correlate to the newsgroup catchup.
Hopefully that will stop this flood, and I also hope that I haven't
harmed any other emails. (I did my best to limit it strictly to
wine-users, and there is a clear argument that wine-users is unusable
anyways atm).
There may be a few stragglers yet, but the bulk of the queued
mail is now gone, so hopefully we're finally done. My apologies
for not understanding where this mail was queued sooner; I could
have stopped this last night if I had understood it.
Finally, thanks to those few of you that wrote to me directly; I
sort my mail (and take wine-users via digest), so I was slow to clue
in to the problem. Direct email helped with the clue bat.
Cheers,
Jeremy
Cristian Falcas wrote:
> It seems I reached september now. A few other thousand (maybe tens of
> thousands) and it should be ALL normal.
> Great job.
>
> On 3/20/07, *Jeremy White* < jwhite at winehq.org
> <mailto:jwhite at winehq.org>> wrote:
>
> John Drescher wrote:
> >> We did system maintenance on the WineHQ server yesterday.
> >>
> >> Apparently, the gateway between the newsgroup and the mailing
> >> list has been broken, and has been broken for some time.
> >>
> >> The mail flood is the result of that break being repaired,
> >> so that the two are now linked again. (You can see that the
> >> emails flooding to wine-users are ones that originally were
> >> posted to the newsgroup).
> >>
> > Any idea when this will end? I have received over 400 messages and I
> > seem to still get around 10 of these emails to my gmail box every 5
> > minutes.
>
> Well, no, and the mystery deepens. That is, I poked around in log
> files and such trying to remember how the gateway is configured.
>
> And the gateway is configured to use an NNTP server provided by
> our old ISP, which rejects our queries, and has for quite some time
> now.
>
> I spent the afternoon trying to figure this out, but have now
> essentially
> run out of time.
>
> I've disabled the gateway between news and mail in the hopes that
> will stem the tide of old messages. Once I figure out a news server
> that will listen to me, I'll see about rebridging it
> (although, arguably, a completely different solution may be more
> appropriate).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
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