Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:24:19 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Anderson <ciscoaix@yahoo.com> To: tt-list@simplenet.com, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reprocessing sendmail failed messages Message-ID: <20060331192419.83050.qmail@web52706.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <442D7E80.4010004@simplenet.com>
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--- Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hey there Tim, Found this with google. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-June/049850.html A Dr Matthew had this answer (read full text to see what's up but here's a snippet) If you end up with a load of messages stuck in /var/spool/clientmqueue, you've got a similar problem with not running a MSP queue daemon. The case is exactly analogous, except that the sendmail flags are in /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid and should read: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m and you need to set 'sendmail_msp_queue_flags' in /etc/rc.conf to override them. --------- Hope that helps. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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