Pardon my ignorance but I wander if you might pass along how to.... "set the queue lifetime to short, like 2 hours"
Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMGate] Re: Mail stops processing >I understand that these time outs are spam. But is there a way to clean >them out of the queue in the basic config files, there are some scripts that help with queue cleangin > and keep them out? don't accept them. 1. don't accept inbound for non-existent/non-verified recipients (so there can be no non-mailer-daemon bounce msgs generated by postfix) 2. don't accept inbound msgs from non-verified senders. > 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. the last, and perhaps least effectiver perhaps unacceptable, tactic is to set the queue lifetime to short, like 2 hours, so the mailer-daemon msgs expire as undeliverable, rather than hang around in the queue for default of 5 days. Len
