Outbound mal stuck

MailScanner MailScanner at rowley-cs.co.uk
Fri Jan 9 19:36:13 GMT 2009


Thx for replying.
That is exactly what I am seeing.
How do I kill the attempted delivery?
Plz advice.

Thx

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Denis Beauchemin
Sent: 09 January 2009 19:26
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Outbound mal stuck

MailScanner a écrit :
> Hi Again,
>
> My mistake. It is still on the queue.
> I delete the file in /var/spool/mqueue but when run tail -20f /var/log/maillog and it is still trying to deleiver.
> I use sendmail.
>
> Any Idea?
>
> Thx.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of traced
> Sent: 09 January 2009 18:58
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Outbound mal stuck
>
> MailScanner schrieb:
>
>> Hi Everyone.
>>
>> How do I delete a stuck outbound mail?
>>
>> Plz advice.
>>
>> Thx,
>>
>
> Which MTA do you use?
>
> Bastian
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If you're using sendmail (you didn't answer Bastian's question about
this), /var/spool/mqueue is the outqueue where MS puts emails after it
is done with them.  So you shouldn't be seeing anything about them
anymore, except for attempted delivery from sendmail.

Denis

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