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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>
In-Reply-To: <15578.40154.708777.223495@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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>

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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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Best regards,

Jack L. Stone
Server Admin

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