Howdy,
Here's a really cheesy way to flush the queue of Yahoo.com messages without
flushing everything else:
Set up a virtual domain mta206.mail.yahoo.com. Set postmaster as the only
user and dump all the yahoo messages into that box and deal with it later
(panic button solution). Or alternatively, try to bounce them back to the
sender. To do this set up the virtual domain mail.yahoo.com with no locals.
User will get the can't find host error (hopefully). The second option would
allow users to try again later. You can inject a message to everyone when
yahoo comes back up. I doubt Qmail will fail on you though. Better advice
might be to have a beer and look at it later...
Charles Werbick,
Network Administrator
The Wirehouse,
Colorado Springs, CO
p.s.- I've never tried this, so pretend you see some sort of disclaimer
here.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ismal Hisham Darus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 00:45
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Still problem with yahoo.com
Well it just "eaten up" my queues only :-) now occupied 16/23. A bit
worried only :-).
anyway thanks for your advise & suggestion..
Date sent: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:20:24 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bryan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ismal Hisham Darus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Still problem with yahoo.com
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:47:59PM -0400, Bryan White wrote:
>
>
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:50:05AM +0800, Ismal Hisham Darus wrote:
> > > My site still have porbelm connecting with yahoo.com .. everytime i
got
> the
> > > message : Connected_to_128.11.23.225_but_connection_died. I even send
> an
> > > email to aol.com and successfully sent the email. Does yahoo.com needs
> > > another patch ? please help ..
> >
> > Neither of yahoo.com's mail exchangers is answering right now. It's not
> your
> > problem. Don't worry about it.
>
> Any idea how long till they will be back up? Is there someplace to find
> this information. I have been struggling with mails queues clogged with
> messages for yahoo.com all day. I am on the virge of rejecting new
messages
> to the yahoo domain.
In what way are you "struggling"? Sure there may be plenty of emails in your
queue,
but is it really hurting? Or do you just not like that idea of qmail-remote
failing
and seeing the corresponding log entry? Remote delivery is very cheap with
qmail so
you don't need to be too concerned unless the yahoo mail is consuming all of
your
concurrencyremote. If it's not, then you can sleep soundly as it's no big
deal.
Regards.
Ismal Hisham Mohd Darus
Asst. Manager, System Support
John Hancock Life Insurance (Malaysia) Berhad
