deleting messages from mqueue
Edward
lines long! Most of the emails are for a particular domain
'problemdomain.co.uk'. I'd like to delete all these files
Looking at the output below, if I delete the file QAB21347, will it remove
the email from rando...@hotmail.com to us...@problemdomain.co.uk or is
there more to it?
QAB21347 0 Wed Apr 17 16:51 <rando...@hotmail.com>
(Deferred: Connection refused by
smtpmail.problemdomain.co.uk.)
<us...@problemdomain.co.uk>
DAA23786 140 Fri Apr 5 03:56 <rando...@webshots.com>
(Deferred: Connection refused by
smtpmail.problemdomain.co.uk.)
<us...@problemdomain.co.uk>
NAB00489 98 Fri Feb 22 13:51 <rando...@ehost2102.com>
(Deferred: Connection refused by
smtpmail.problemdomain.co.uk.)
<us...@problemdomain.co.uk>
Thanks,
Edward
Claus Aßmann
> Running `mailq > output.txt` on my backup mailserver produced a file 461246
> lines long! Most of the emails are for a particular domain
> 'problemdomain.co.uk'. I'd like to delete all these files
> Looking at the output below, if I delete the file QAB21347, will it remove
> the email from rando...@hotmail.com to us...@problemdomain.co.uk or is
> there more to it?
> QAB21347 0 Wed Apr 17 16:51 <rando...@hotmail.com>
> (Deferred: Connection refused by
> smtpmail.problemdomain.co.uk.)
> <us...@problemdomain.co.uk>
> DAA23786 140 Fri Apr 5 03:56 <rando...@webshots.com>
> (Deferred: Connection refused by
> smtpmail.problemdomain.co.uk.)
> <us...@problemdomain.co.uk>
You should figure out why those mails are on your server.
Is it spam?
Is it legitimate mail?
In the former case: why is it on your system?
After you figured that out and solved the problem,
you can use contrib/qtool.pl to remove the mail.
In the latter case: you shouldn't delete it;
in the worst case you can bounce it back to
the sender:
sendmail -qRproblemdomain.co.uk -O Timeout.queuereturn=now
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