Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 11:57:00 -0500
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq'
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020509115700.03016918@mail.sage-one.net>
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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. .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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