On 8/25/02 3:01 PM, Warren Michelsen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> A client had a full mailbox and therefore a 7.7 MB message could not be
> delivered. Now, when the user logs in and fetches her email, and the mailbox
> becomes empty, why didn't SIMS then deliver the 7.7 Meg message that was
> sitting in the queue, failed?
> 
> Or did it, and the failed message just isn't removed from the queue?

Once it failed (meaning SIMS will never attempt to deliver it again and an
appropriate error has been returned to the sender), it no longer was really
in the queue. It was retained in the queue folder and shows up with the
commands to check the queue but that's only because you have set up SIMS to
retain failed messages for a period of time (I believe the default is not to
retain them for any period). SIMS is done with the message at this point
other than to delete it after the appropriate retention peiod (another way
you could say this is the only thing it is queued for is deletion).

-- Larry Stone
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   http://www.stonejongleux.com/
   


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