Re: Removing messages from the queue (another one) - a conclusion

1999-11-08 Thread Wallace Nicoll
In previous emails I noted that a qmail installation as part of Network Associates Webshield SMTP for Solaris was exhibiting strange behaviour with some email that could not be processed or sent correctly. These messages kept reappearing in the intd and mess subdirectories, quickly eating up disk

Re: Removing messages from the queue (another one)

1999-10-15 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Am I right in >thinking that the retry table (40 attempts at increasing periods) would >continue for about ten weeks before giving up? That depends on what queuelifetime is set to. The default is one week. -Dave

Re: Removing messages from the queue (another one)

1999-10-14 Thread Wallace Nicoll
Dave Sill wrote: > Anyone ever heard of Webshield? Are they really bundling qmail? > The product is Networks Associates Webshield for SMTP. We have a site licence for all NAI products, and as I was being forced into a quick fix for virus checking all Internet email I had this included as part o

Re: Removing messages from the queue (another one)

1999-10-14 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave Sill writes: > > >I've yet to try changing the file message date on the file in the mess > > >subdirs. > > > > Wait until the message is queued (there's a "todo" file for it) or > > preprocessed (there's an "info" file for it), then "touch" the "me

Re: Removing messages from the queue (another one)

1999-10-14 Thread Russell Nelson
Dave Sill writes: > >I've yet to try changing the file message date on the file in the mess > >subdirs. > > Wait until the message is queued (there's a "todo" file for it) or > preprocessed (there's an "info" file for it), then "touch" the "mess" > file into the future a couple weeks. It'll

Re: Removing messages from the queue (another one)

1999-10-14 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >As part of the Webshield virus scanner, a version of qmail appears to >have been installed. Anyone ever heard of Webshield? Are they really bundling qmail? >The question is, can I delete these messages from the queue directory >structure? Yes and no. If a message in r

Removing messages from the queue (another one)

1999-10-11 Thread Wallace Nicoll
Hi there, Hopefully someone can help me with a problem we're having with (probably) qmail. Main system feature is : Solaris 2.6 / Webshield SMTP As part of the Webshield virus scanner, a version of qmail appears to have been installed. We use sendmail as the main connection to the Internet. Th