Outbound mal stuck

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Sat Jan 10 11:33:02 GMT 2009


Thx Denis,

That certainly does work. Thx again.

Bill

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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 20:09
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Subject: Re: Outbound mal stuck

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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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of traced
> Sent: 09 January 2009 19:42
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> Subject: Re: Outbound mal stuckservice
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> MailScanner schrieb:
>
>> 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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