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How to delete bouncing mails in qmail ?

Hi guys,

i sent a mail to 8 recipients.
Two of them are not reachable this time.

Since 28 hours i'm getting 'delay notices' from my ASL.

Because the mail is about 4MB i don't want the ASL to try again and delete the mail from the queue.
(Okay, in times of Flatrates this is no size, but we do not have it yet )

1.) Where is it located ? Can i delete it in an easy way?
I searched under /var/chroot-smtp/var/... in different directories

2.) How often does ASL retry to send the mail ?

Thanx for advise.

Regards, Karsten

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0 KKnecht over 23 years ago

Aaaaaargh,

the ASL is still trying to send my mail, and my accouting grows and grows.

Could anybody give me a hint please ??

Karsten
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0 graewe over 23 years ago in reply to KKnecht

on www.qmail.org you can find a perl script named qmHandle, with this script you can delete single messages in queue,
by the way, I think you can be very happy, in the moment I have about 30.000 bounced Messages in queue.
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0 Markus Hennig over 23 years ago in reply to graewe

Hi Karsten,

under Reports->SMTP Proxy you find the message id for this email.
Delete the directory with this id in /var/chroot-smtp/var/qmail/queue/info /intd /mess /remote /todo (as root with rm -rf ).
Version 2.0 of ASL will have a interface to handle this within the WebAdmin.

For your question 2: Astaro Security Linux try to resend your message every hour.

[ 09 May 2001: Message edited by: Markus Hennig ]
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0 KKnecht over 23 years ago in reply to Markus Hennig

Hello Markus,

thanks a lot for your help, it worked fine.

Greetings to Karlsruhe !

Karsten

BTW: Hope you guys find the time to relax a little bit at the beer garden (look out the window) between your hard and very excellent work
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0 Justin Wheatley over 23 years ago in reply to KKnecht

I think these guys try to avoid Windows!

[ 11 May 2001: Message edited by: Justin Wheatley ]
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0 Marius over 23 years ago in reply to Justin Wheatley

Hmmm. I have 86895 notification-Mails in my queue. To delete them would be no Problem. But why are they all in the queue not going out?

[:S]

[ 31 May 2001: Message edited by: Marius Schäfer ]
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0 Marius over 23 years ago in reply to Marius

I set up the smtp-routes in proxies->smtp wrong. now it seems to work [:)]
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0 Markus Hennig over 23 years ago in reply to Marius

Hi all,

there is also a document about deleting emails on docs.astaro.org.
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0 morpheus over 23 years ago in reply to Markus Hennig

[:S]todo ..??

I have installed ASL 2.00 and the GUI does not have any options of removing the emails from the queue. This is becoming a pain periodically this takes up the entire bandwidth on my 128K test ISDN. Any suggestions
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