I understand that these time outs are spam. But is there a way to clean them out of the queue and keep them out? I have tried deleting all the messages in the queue and more just come right back. There are 700+ of = them in the almost all the time.
Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Behalf Of Chris Scott Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMGate] Re: Mail stops processing Dan Spray wrote: > I have tried that. The weird thing is that when messages are balled > up...like now...and I search for conpoint.com (my main domain) I get = =3D > lines > that look like this.... >=20 > 4899F32EE4* 6133 Mon Oct 27 11:55:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The asterisk means that is being processed. The first address should be = the sender and the second the recipient. I'd grep for that queue id after = it is processed and see what happened. >=20 > However, when I look at the lines in the mailq when things aren't = balled =3D > up > like when I have 700 or so messages in the queue I get lines like =3D > this.... >=20 > 166CD34844 2587 Sun Oct 26 20:12:09 MAILER-DAEMON > (connect to s006-2.mathstat.dal.ca[129.173.4.216]: Connection = =3D > timed > out) > = [EMAIL PROTECTED] >=20 >=20 > It is like these messages never clear out. That's a bounce and the server is timing out. When I see these on a = system=20 we don't do any blocking on, it is almost always spam. The 'connection=20 refused' even more so. --=20 Chris Scott Host Orlando, Inc http://www.hostorlando.com/
