As far as I understand Mike, the steps you mention are correct. I have seen
things sitting in the undeliv folder, and they have never been sent.. so I'm
fairly certain that you're 40,000+ messages would never have been sent.
If you want to actually send them, you can copy them back to the Spool
folder, however this poses the question as to why they weren't sent, which I
guess you've figured... If it was that the mail server was unavailable at
the time, then they should be delivered if you drop them into the spool
folder.. but if it's a relaying error, ie, the domain of the senders address
does not equal that of the email server, then they would never be delivered.
Hope that helps a little
Nick
> From: Michael Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:01:43 +1000 (EST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: <CFMAIL>Hundreds of messages left undelivered ... why?
>
> Yesterday, I did a dumb thing and got into a nasty pickle with my email
> newsletter. I'm really grateful to Nick Slay for coming rapidly to my
> rescue with the solution.
>
> Now I find there's another potential problem ..... there were 40,920
> undelivered messages left on my server after I rebooted it, all with a
> file name like CFMnnnn.TMP. As it happens, this was a blessing in this
> case, or else there would have been 40,920 messages incorrectly delivered
> to my users. And they'd have been even more irate than they were.
>
> But what about all those undelivered messages?
>
> Would they have ever been sent? If I had wanted them to be sent, how
> would I do that?
>
> Is this folder C:\CFUSION\MAIL\UNDELIVR (Assuming a default installation)
> a holding pen for messages that are to be delivered? If not, what exactly
> is the process?
>
> Here's how I am guessing it works .. can someone confirm this please?
>
> (1) The CF server performs the query and other processing to compile each
> email.
> (2) Each email is in a file of its own called CFMnnnn.TMP and is dropped
> into C:\CFUSION\MAIL\SPOOL
> (3) The SMTP server looks there regularly and takes any files and
> sends them.
> (4) If there is an error, the SMTP server writes a record to
> C:\CFUSION\MAIL\LOGS\ERRORS.LOG then moves the error email to
> C:\CFUSION\MAIL\UNDELIVR
> (5) Once a message gets to C:\CFUSION\MAIL\UNDELIVR it sits there until
> manual intervention fixes it.
>
> Is this right?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Kear
> AFP Web Development
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
>
>
>
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