The MTA at gnucash.org will keep the queue alive for some number of days (I think most MTA keep the queue for about 4-5 days), and then "give up" and discard the messages. It is also possible that the messages can be manually discarded. It is also possible to configure a different retention period.
At Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:20:24 -0700 Bruce Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6/27/25 20:06, Robert Heller wrote: > > I suspect a transient issue with Yahoo's servers. Back when I was hosting > > Mailman 2 lists on my server, some of the people on one of my lists were on > > Yahoo's servers (@yahoo.com, @aol.com, @netscape.net, @verison.ne, maybe a > > few > > other domains). From time to time, all of these address would get blocked > > (messages temporally delayed). Yahoo's servers would refuse e-mail list > > messages for a while (hours, days, maybe for a week), and then the messages > > would start being accepted and after a few hours, days, maybe a week, the > > pending queue would be flushed. And then at some future time it would > > happen > > again. Not really much that I could do. Except suggest that people switch > > to > > another E-Mail provider... > > > > Note: Yahoo has gone rather downhill for the past while. Yahoo groups went > > totally south, causing a mass exidus to groups.io. Verizon bought Yahoo and > > then sold Yahoo's E-Mail service to a holding company. (We we have heard on > > this group all about what has happened to Yahoo's securities service...) > > > > > Having worked a few queues in my time, it makes me wonder how they > resolve errors.ÃÂ Do they actually resolve the error(s) and re-queue the > messages or do they simply delete the message(s) in error to allow the > messages to flow again?ÃÂ I lost all the emails from the time they > stopped until they started again.ÃÂ I suspect the latter. > > I've had my yahoo email account since 2013 and this the first time I had > this issue that I am aware of.ÃÂ I do recall suspecting I missed 1 or 2 > random messages in the past.ÃÂ If it happens again I will seriously > consider switching to another email provider. > > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
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