At 12:40 PM 10/27/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>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/
