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At 08:59 AM 5.9.2002 -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
>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).
>
Gregory: Yes, I knew that, but since I also know that is a waste of time on
these emails, I was curious if there was a safe way of removing them so the
system could go on to new things.

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