Queued messages that won't go away

[Miguel Cruz]

I have four messages in the mail queue that refuse to move on.

$mailq -v
Mail Queue (4 requests)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -Priority- ---Q-Time--- -----------Sender/Recipient-----------
RAA02097* 13 30274 Apr 2 17:57 <m...@diana.ml.org>
<migue...@yale.edu>
DAA31737* 491 30755 Apr 2 03:12 <m...@diana.ml.org>
<morgan....@yale.edu>
RAA02064* 573 30825 Apr 2 17:55 <m...@diana.ml.org>
<morgan....@yale.edu>
DAA31668* 561 30920 Apr 2 03:00 <m...@diana.ml.org>
<sonja.ni...@yale.edu>

Two of these (ca 17:55) I just sent to try to see what the deal is. It only
seems to happen with addresses @yale.edu; all other mail moves through
nicely. Some yale.edu mail moves as well, though it tends to stick for a
while before going.

What do the *'s mean after the message ID? All the messages in the queue
without starts got dumped when I tried sendmail -q. These four won't go.

I read the sendmail man page and didn't come up with anything useful.

Thanks!

miguel

[Kyle Jones]

> Mail Queue (4 requests)
> --Q-ID-- --Size-- -Priority- ---Q-Time--- -----------Sender/Recipient-----------
> RAA02097* 13 30274 Apr 2 17:57 <m...@diana.ml.org>
> <migue...@yale.edu>
> DAA31737* 491 30755 Apr 2 03:12 <m...@diana.ml.org>
> <morgan....@yale.edu>
> RAA02064* 573 30825 Apr 2 17:55 <m...@diana.ml.org>
> <morgan....@yale.edu>
> DAA31668* 561 30920 Apr 2 03:00 <m...@diana.ml.org>
> <sonja.ni...@yale.edu>
>
> Two of these (ca 17:55) I just sent to try to see what the deal is. It only
> seems to happen with addresses @yale.edu; all other mail moves through
> nicely. Some yale.edu mail moves as well, though it tends to stick for a
> while before going.
>
> What do the *'s mean after the message ID? All the messages in the queue
> without starts got dumped when I tried sendmail -q. These four won't go.

* means there is a sendmail process trying to deliver the message.
The job could be delayed for many reasons; network sluggishness,
DNS timeouts, a slow server at Yale or something else.