On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:23:21PM -0400, Omar Thameen wrote:
> How do I stop qmail from attempting to deliver a message to a particular
> recipient? I don't want to remove the entire message from the queue;
> I just want it to stop trying to deliver to a broken mail server.
> I already know about qmHandle, and that won't work here.
>
> I'm running qmail 1.03 and ezmlm-idx 0.40. Several mail servers are
> broken - they close the SMTP connection before verifying that they
> received the message, causing qmail to re-attempt delivery later (as
> it should). This results in
> ...connection_died._Possible_duplicate!_(#4.4.2)
> log messages, which, in fact, are true - the recipient is getting
> a copy every time qmail re-attempts delivery.
>
> I've looked at the qmail queue files and see that remote/NN/XXXXXX
> contains a list of addresses. From what I can deduce, those separated
> by [EMAIL PROTECTED] are deliveries that are unsuccessful, whereas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] are successfully completed. I presume this is
> where qmail-qread gets its information.
>
> Could I possibly hand-edit the remote/NN/XXXXXX file and remove the
> particuar address? Any other ideas, like perhaps tricking qmail-remote
> into thinking that the address is to be locally delivered?
Yes, but why? Are you worried that this is polluting your logs? Why
intentionally break something to accomplish something that your qmail system
will do on its own after queuelifetime expires?
As far as being tricky, man qmail-remote.
--Adam
