From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 19:10:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F38916A400 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:10:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tt-list@simplenet.com) Received: from mta1.scaledsystems.com (mta1.scaledsystems.com [209.132.1.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0F843D49 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:10:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tt-list@simplenet.com) Received: (qmail 16109 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2006 19:10:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?209.132.9.116?) (tt@simplenet.com@209.132.9.116) by mail.ssl.simplenet.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 Mar 2006 19:10:16 -0000 Message-ID: <442D7E80.4010004@simplenet.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:09:52 -0800 From: Tim Traver User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Reprocessing sendmail failed messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tt-list@simplenet.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:10:17 -0000 Hi All, ok, I know this isn't the right list, but I've already tried the sendmail group, and no response, so I'm hoping that there might be some sendmail gurus on this list that can help me... After a temporary DNS outage, several machines that we run have email messages on them that sendmail attempted to relay to our mail cluster, but failed because they could not find the host name of the server they were relaying to. So, now, I have hundreds of messages in the clientmqueue directory that are marked as having permanent fatal errors. The top of the d file looks like this : ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- i...@xxxxxxx.com (reason: 550 Host unknown) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 5.1.2 i...@xxxxxxxxx.com... Host unknown (Name server: xxxx.xxxxxxxx.com: host not found) I see that there are many of these message that are important, and want to save and send them. Is there a way to get sendmail to re-attempt to send these messages ? I think it just ignores them right now because of those lines. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Tim.