On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:39:11PM -0800, Mark Delany wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 08:31:09PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have 36 messages which appear to be permanently stuck in the queue,
> > I'm running qmail 1.03 with the holdremote patch on Mandrake Linux
> > 6.1.
> >
> > Normally everything runs quite smoothly but I sent a *lot* of mail
> > (by my standards!) last night, probably a few hundred messages in
> > ten minutes or so and these 36 messages have 'stuck'. Most of the
> > messages were to the same destination so I can't see what's special
> > about these.
>
> What did you conclude from looking at the log messages associated
> with sending these messages? Do the log messages indicate a reason
> why they might be "stuck"? Is it a reason that you can fix? Is it
> a reason that someone else is likely to fix?
>
Aha, a good point, sorry! They have been 'deferred' because the
sender domain doesn't resolve, I 'bounced' them using mutt so the
From: address doesn't change and they were originally from a domain
that no longer exists!
Thanks for your help - I must remember to look in the logs next time,
a bit like RTFM but it's RTFL.
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