Hi Sam,
So mailq still shows about 10,000 messages as being in the
queue, even though cancelmsg reports them as "not found"
It should not take a long time to go through a 10,000-message queue. You
need to investigate the real reason your mail queue is backed up.
As you may have seen my other posts, there is some problem with these
messages. It has been 5 days and mailq still reports them as being in the
queue, while at the same time cancelmsg reports the message as "not
found".
Find the real reason why your mail is being processed so slowly.
The problem is that the "offending" messages are a result of a badly
configured aliases file. So every single one of these messages are
returning a "450 Service temporarily unavailable." error. And maillog
repeatedly shows this error.
But this all loops back to my initial confusion. I originally issued a
cancelmsg command to every one of these roughly 10,000 messages in the
hopes of "clearing up" this problem. But these messages refuse to be
removed from mailq, and seem to be repeatedly retried at the appropriate
retry schedule.
So how can I clear up this problem? They will continue to generate the
"450 Service temporarily unavailable." error, and continue to be deferred.
I have my queuetime set to only 12h, but I guess that doesn't matter?
Any help is appreciated!
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