From: Sam Varshavchik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Bowie Bailey writes: > > > > I know that I can cancel the old messages from the queue, but is > > there any way to do it that will cause Courier to bounce them with > > the normal undeliverable message? > > > > Based on reading the docs, I think I can modify the E record in > > the control file to a time about 10 minutes or so in the future > > and then restart courier. Courier should then bounce the message > > after the next delivery attempt. Will this work or am I just > > going to get things screwed up by attempting it? Is there an > > easier way? > > You must stop Courier before screwing around with queue file, > because their contents are often cached in memory. > > But there's an easier answer. > > The 'courier cancel' cancel. The bounce will not read 'User > unknown', but that matters very little. Chances are there won't be > a bounce at all, if the original message arrived by smtp, and you're > running the current version of Courier with the default backscatter > settings.
I'm not sure what you mean by the 'courier cancel' cancel. I don't see anything about a 'courier cancel' command in the docs. And generating the 'User unknown' message (or rather, 'Unable to contact server') is the whole point of this exercise. The email in question is from one of my users and is being sent to a whole list of email addresses. One or two of the addresses are having problems and so the mail is held in the queue. This message came in at a time when I had the queuetime setting bumped up. I have now dropped queuetime back down to normal and I want to generate normal undeliverable messages for the addresses that are still pending without having to wait for the unusually high queuetime to timeout. I'm running Courier 0.46 if it makes any difference. (Yea, I've put off upgrading this machine a bit too long -- I'll get to it soon) Bowie ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
