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Date:      Thu, 9 May 2002 08:59:22 -0700
From:      Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc:        Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq'
Message-ID:  <15578.40154.708777.223495@horsey.gshapiro.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020509071919.011c7318@mail.sage-one.net>
References:  <15577.60930.577722.682790@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20020509012717.GA43918@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3.0.5.32.20020509071919.011c7318@mail.sage-one.net>

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jackstone> ...a further question I have that I don't see in the mailq man
jackstone> pages is how to kill the remaining part of a majordomo mailing
jackstone> where the system wants to keeping trying to deliver some
jackstone> stale-addressed remaining emails for up to 5 days. These emails
jackstone> will never be delivered because the address have become stale. I
jackstone> have removed them from the mail list so they won;t be there at
jackstone> the next mailing, but, the mqueue is still trying to deliver
jackstone> them needlessly.  That queue was uselful in shwoing the bad
jackstone> addresses, but need to be purged.... but how...???

sendmail automatically bounces the mail after 5 days (by default, see
Timeout.queuereturn).

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