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<BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> b) Mailman 2.1.x - <PRE> If you are running Mailman 2.1.x then the qrunners are daemons that
are started by $prefix/bin/mailmanctl, which itself may be being
run via a 'mailman' startup script. This is described in the
INSTALL document for the version of MM you are running.
Note that there are eight qrunners. These runners and their
functions are
ArchRunner # messages for the archiver
BounceRunner # for processing of bounces
CommandRunner # commands and confirmations from the outside world
IncomingRunner # posts from the outside world
NewsRunner # outgoing messages to the nntpd
OutgoingRunner # outgoing messages to the smtpd
VirginRunner # internally crafted (virgin birth) messages
RetryRunner # retry temporarily failed deliveries
If you aren't doing any gatwaying to usenet, you can do without
NewsRunner, and if you aren't archiving any lists, you can do without
ArchRunner, but the other six are required to be running for normal
Mailman operation.
Also note that if any queues are 'sliced' there will be more than
one runner for that queue, and you need them all. For example, if
OutgoingRunner is set up for 4 slices, there will be four copies of
OutgoingRunner processing slices 0:4, 1:4, 2:4 and 3:4. If any of
these four is not running, its portion of the out queue will not be
processed.
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