On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Luca Giuranna wrote: > >>it would be useful to have some admin commands to deal with messages > >>scheduled for resend (those in the rsnd folders in the spool tree), the > >>same way xmail has commands to deal with frozen messages. > >>They could be "rsndlist", "rsndgetlog" and "rsndgetmsg", like the > >>"froz..." equivalents. > > > Why would we need them? I mean, message are already rescheduled for > > delivery. > > > In my personal case the mail server i'm working on is part of a complex > system where mail delivery is of primary importance and the system must > know if a message is deferred and the reason why. > > By analizing xmail log files is possible to discovery if a message has > not been sent, then, by looking for the frozen message, one can know > that the message has bounced and why. If it is just deferred, there is > no frozen message and the only way to know why is to look for the > rsnd/slog pair in the spool tree. > > Not that this is a big problem, in fact I was able to write a small > software to accomplish this, but I think that, conceptually, frozen and > deferred message are both problems that a system may want to be informed > about and new admin commands would make xmail more internally coherent. > > Of course this is just my opinion, maybe I'm the only one in the world > with such needs :-)
I am gonna put it in queue, with low priority, and if it does not require too much code to handle. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
