Hi,

I am sending lots of email and it seems that alot of outgoing
email gets stuck in the deffered status. I would rather have deferred
email removed from the queue
after 6hours, but it seems from the output of mailq that mail isn't
being removed for 1 full day.

I have Timeout.queuereturn=6h set in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
my sendmail version is 8.13.x

Thanks for any help

Tyler

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On Jan 14, 3:49 pm, Res <r... [at] ausics.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, bir... [at] gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am sending lots of email and it seems that alot of outgoing
> > email gets stuck in the deffered status. I would rather have deferred
> > email removed from the queue
> > after 6hours, but it seems from the output of mailq that mail isn't
> > being removed for 1 full day.
>
> I think you need to find out why they are all deferred.......
>
> "i am sending lots of emails" sounds like spamming to me, if not then
> you should get the bounce backs telling you why it couldnt send
> and can rectify it without touching Sendmail
>
> --
> Cheers
> Res
>
> mysql> update auth set Framed-IP-Address='127.0.0.127' where user= 'troll';


Res,

I remember alot of messages in the mail queue saying they were not
able to connect to the mail exchanger
for the outbound domain.

I also remember others were for various reaons.

Either way I wonder if there is a way to just drop messages from the
queue after 6 hours

Tyler

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