Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 09:59:07 -0700
From: Claus Assmann <ca+greg@esmtp.org>
To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq'
Message-ID: <20020509095907.A26433@zardoc.esmtp.org>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020509115700.03016918@mail.sage-one.net>; from jackstone@sage-one.net on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:57:00AM -0500
References: <3.0.5.32.20020509071919.011c7318@mail.sage-one.net> <15577.60930.577722.682790@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20020509012717.GA43918@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3.0.5.32.20020509071919.011c7318@mail.sage-one.net> <15578.40154.708777.223495@horsey.gshapiro.net> <3.0.5.32.20020509115700.03016918@mail.sage-one.net>
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On Thu, May 09, 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote: > 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. Can you post a real example? What was the SMTP reply code of the other side? A permanent (5xy) error? In that case the recipient should not be tried again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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