From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 9 10: 0:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zardoc.esmtp.org (adsl-63-195-85-27.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.85.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B46337B40B for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zardoc.esmtp.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zardoc.esmtp.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g49Gx7x0010282 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 9 May 2002 09:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ca@localhost) by zardoc.esmtp.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g49Gx70B031655; Thu, 9 May 2002 09:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 09:59:07 -0700 From: Claus Assmann To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq' Message-ID: <20020509095907.A26433@zardoc.esmtp.org> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Stable List 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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