On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM John-Paul Reed via Outages < outages@outages.org> wrote:
Why did this Digest just get emailed out? It looks old.
Regards, John-Paul Reed
I'm pretty sure it's a function of these two parameters to Mailman--I suspect digest_send_periodic is set to "No", and the two messages in December weren't big enough to cross digest_size_threshold, so they sat in the outbound queue, waiting until enough additional content came through to trigger the delivery, which finally happened when the last 2 messages in the digest arrived yesterday, putting the resulting digest size across the digest_size_threshold trigger point. If you scrolled through the digest message, you probably noticed the last two messages were very recent, from Feb 6th 2025, indicating this wasn't a case of an old message stuck in an outbound queue that finally got processed, it really was a newly-created digest message that included messages up until Feb 6th. Matt *digest_size_threshold*Normally, digest members get at least one message per day, if there have been any messages posted to the list. However, for high volume lists, you may want to send out digests when the size has reached a certain threshold, otherwise, the one digest they receive could be huge. This variable controls the size threshold by specifying the maximum digest size in kilobytes. Note that this threshold isn't exact. Set this variable to zero to specify that there is no size threshold, in which case no more than one digest will be sent out per day, but ensure that digest_send_periodic is *Yes* in this case or no digests will be sent. *digest_send_periodic*This variable actually controls whether or not a digest is sent daily when the size threshold has not yet been met. If set to *No*, then digests will only be sent when they are bigger than digest_size_threshold. _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages