Don't know if there is a better way, but everyone seems to have to flush it out manually - or programatically and try again...
I've never had it happen to me - and I've never heard of anyone being able to reproduce it - but it does seem to happen sometimes - maybe it was due to aliases... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ricardo > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:19 PM > To: Sam Varshavchik > Cc: Courier-Users (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: "Message not found" when running > cancelmsg? > > > Hi Sam, > > > > So mailq still shows about 10,000 messages as being in the > > > queue, even though cancelmsg reports them as "not found" > > > > It should not take a long time to go through a 10,000-message > queue. You > > need to investigate the real reason your mail queue is backed up. > > As you may have seen my other posts, there is some problem with these > messages. It has been 5 days and mailq still reports them as being in the > queue, while at the same time cancelmsg reports the message as "not > found". > > > > > How can I fix this? > > > > Find the real reason why your mail is being processed so slowly. > > The problem is that the "offending" messages are a result of a badly > configured aliases file. So every single one of these messages are > returning a "450 Service temporarily unavailable." error. And maillog > repeatedly shows this error. > > But this all loops back to my initial confusion. I originally issued a > cancelmsg command to every one of these roughly 10,000 messages in the > hopes of "clearing up" this problem. But these messages refuse to be > removed from mailq, and seem to be repeatedly retried at the appropriate > retry schedule. > > So how can I clear up this problem? They will continue to generate the > "450 Service temporarily unavailable." error, and continue to be > deferred. > I have my queuetime set to only 12h, but I guess that doesn't matter? > > Any help is appreciated! > > Thanks > Ricardo > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
