On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Tracy wrote:

> > Well, it was definitely a corrupt message of some kind in the outbound 
> > queue. Once I got about 200 of the waiting messages out of the queue, 
> > local mail delivery started flowing again.
> > 
> > It looked like it might have been more than one message - what it really 
> > looked like was that all the smail threads were getting tied up trying 
> > to deliver mail that would go for one reason or another. Stopping the 
> > debug session and restarting it several times (with retry set to 4 
> > instead of default) cleared a bunch of it out and now things are going.
> > 
> > I don't know what it was about the messages in particular - it could 
> > have been a number of nasty things, since all of the messages in 
> > question were spam reports and included the original spams.
> > 
> > But for what it's worth, that's what I found out. Hope it strikes a 
> > chord with someone, and maybe turns up further answers.

Did the messages that were slowing down (clobbering) the SMAIL threads 
fail a few times before being delivered?



- Davide


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