qmail-remote has no permissions to touch the queue and there are no kill
calls in any of the qmail code, so:
o nothing gets rid of running qmail-remotes (as also evidenced by the log
entries when you shutdown qmail-send)
and
o qmail-remote never notices that the underlying infrastructure has gone
so, they run to completion as far as smtp is concerned, but nothing changes
the queue entries.
Regards.
At 03:07 PM Wednesday 5/5/99, Fred Lindberg wrote:
>What happens when qmail-send is killed, as e.g. a routine shutdown
>while qmail-remote is hanging onto clients?
>
>It appears that qmail-remote completes the delivery, but has nobody to
>tell it did so, resulting in duplications.
>
>Is this really what happens? Of course duplication in such a situation
>is quite acceptable. I'm just trying to find out if this is the source
>of the duplications seen (or if there is a real problem).
>
>Normally, when shutting down, qmail-send it is not doing deliveries, or
>trying deliveries that have a low likelihood of succeeding, i.e.
>redeliveries. Thus, this wouldn't be apparent. This time, I shut it
>down (-TERM) during maximal activity for reconfiguration (test system).
>
>Any insight would be appreciated! THanks!
>
>-Sincerely, Fred
>
>(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
>
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