Thanks, Ulrich. I stopped SMTP and deleted all the SMTP. mail files. Seems to have worked.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ulrich Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > As far as I know, there are no SMSG SMTP ... - commands to delete an email > from the queue. > Depending on your SMTP configuration settings of RETRYAGE, you can specify > how many days email will stay in queue until rejected as undeliverable. > (The > default is 3 days.) And RETRYINT specifies how often to retry sending > queued > mail ... every xxx minutes. > See > > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B481/CONTENTS > ?SHELF=&DT=20090202162722#32.46 > > If all else fails (really, do this only if it's turned into a three-alarm > fire *): > - Identify the message numbers of the emails you need to delete. > - Stop SMTP > - delete the offending SMTP.msgnumber.* files > - Start SMTP > > *) Cycle SMTP only, if the number of valid emails queued waiting to be sent > to valid destinations and already stored on disk is small. Don't do this if > you have a large number of emails (> 100 or so) ... it may take a long time > for SMTP to re-read and reprocess the ADDRBOOK files for each stored email > during SMTP task startup. Problems will arise, if this process takes longer > to complete than TCP/IP's AUTOLOG interval ... > > And if somebody else has a better idea, please speak up! > > Regards, > Ulrich Krueger > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Mark Pace > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 10:06 > To: [email protected] > Subject: SMTP delete queue entries > > I can't find an SMTP command to stop trying to send email in queue. All > the > commands I find are query type commands, plus stop and start the server, > but > nothing on handling email already in queue. > > -- > Mark Pace > Mainline Information Systems > 1700 Summit Lake Drive > Tallahassee, FL. 32317 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
