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Jun 1, 2009, 6:33 AM

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Monitor progress of ezmlm list

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Hi All,

I hope this is not to much OT...
I am running an ezmlm managed list with about 12k users.
I wonder if there is a trick to monitor how many messages already have
been put into the qmail-queue. Besides - is there a possibility to
interfere with the delivery on the ezmlm side, namely stop the delivery
of unprocesed messages?

The background: Today a customer called me to stop the delivery because
he notice a mistake in his mail and wanted to know how many people
already got the wrong information.

best regards

Oliver

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Jun 1, 2009, 8:42 AM

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Oliver Welter <mail [at] oliwel> wrote:
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> I hope this is not to much OT...

Well, there's a separate list for ezmlm, but this is somewhat qmail-related.

> I am running an ezmlm managed list with about 12k users.
> I wonder if there is a trick to monitor how many messages already have
> been put into the qmail-queue.

qmail-qstat and qmail-qread will give you all the information you could want.
Note that with standard ezmlm and qmail, you're probably talking about (in this circumstance) *one* message, with 12000 recipients, not 12000 messages.

> Besides - is there a possibility to interfere with the delivery on the ezmlm
> side, namely stop the delivery of unprocesed messages?

It's non-trivial, but not spectacularly difficult. You have to shut
qmail-send down (cleanly), and remove the message from the queue (possibly
with a helper program), then restart qmail-send. It shouldn't be something
you're doing on a regular basis; needing to do it once is a lesson for your
customer to either double-check their messages before sending, or enable
moderation on the list so that they have to read and approve their own
postings to the list, giving them an opportunity to catch errors.

Charles
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