Outbound mal stuck

[Denis Beauchemin]

MailScanner a écrit :
> I have restarted the MS and nothing changed.
> Service MailScanner restart.
> Everything started Ok but I still see the attempted delivery.
> Any idea why?
>
> Thx
>
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> Sent: 09 January 2009 19:42
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> Subject: Re: Outbound mal stuckservice
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>   
>> Thx for replying.
>> That is exactly what I am seeing.
>> How do I kill the attempted delivery?
>> Plz advice.
>>
>> Thx
>>
>>     
>
> Have you simply tried to restart sendmail?
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Restarting MS doesn't kill existing sendmail processes.  If you removed 
the df and qf files from /var/spool/mqueue and you made sure no sendmail 
process is still trying to deliver that email (look at the output of ps) 
then delivery attempts could no longer occur.

Denis

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