On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Colin Dick writes: > > > Hi all, > > Thanks again for all the help with optimization to try to reduce / > > speed up the processing of my mail queue which at one point contained over > > 200,000 messages. I am now at about 70,000 and still reducing. > > > > In any event, one of the things I attempted to was to write a > > program to parse the queue for specific deliveries and run: > > > > /usr/lib/courier/bin/cancelmsg <qid> > > > > for the specific id's. I thought this was a great step as I have > > a whack of messages to a common address that don't need to be delivered. > > However, I see now that bounces are being sent for every message I have > > marked to delete. > > This has not helped to clean my queue as now, instead of the > > initial message, I have a bunch of bounces being generated and populating > > the queue. So I am no further ahead with that theory. > > Is there a way to cancelmsg immediately with no bounce? This > > Nope. cancelmsg essentially marks the message as failed. Unless the > message has DSNs turned off, this will result in a non-delivery report.
Sounds like a perfect time to add a switch to cancelmsg to prevent bouncing of canceled messages! Is that possible? -- Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is two wolves attempting to have a sheep for dinner and finding a well-informed, well-armed sheep. Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C and Python Code Gardener ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
