Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Bill Crowley
Hi, It seems that delivered messages as staying in the queue. 7 days later queue mail is giving up "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long." I know that 99% of these messages have been delivered successfully so I am not sure why they are not purging from the

Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:49:15PM -0800, Bill Crowley wrote: Hi, It seems that delivered messages as staying in the queue. 7 days later queue mail is giving up "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long." I know that 99% of these messages have been

Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Bill Crowley wrote: Hi, It seems that delivered messages as staying in the queue. 7 days later queue mail is giving up "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long." I know that 99% of these messages have been delivered successfully so I am not sure why

Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:53:44PM -0500, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: [snip] Lemme think here. If I'm not mistaken, the user that modifies the queue is qmailq who owns the qmail-queue program. Now, on my installation of qmail (and so I assume everyone elses) the qmail-queue program's

Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Peter van Dijk wrote: qmail-queue doesn't run as root. It runs as user qmailq. What group this user is in, or what his homedir is, doesn't matter. Permissions on the binary are relevant indeed. Greetz, Peter. Odd. Why do I have a set-root-bit on my qmail-queue binary with an owner of

Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:17:13PM -0500, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: Peter van Dijk wrote: qmail-queue doesn't run as root. It runs as user qmailq. What group this user is in, or what his homedir is, doesn't matter. Permissions on the binary are relevant indeed. Greetz, Peter.