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Re: flushing deferred mails doesn't work

From: mouss (usebsdfree.fr)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 04:33:16 CST


Lydiard a écrit :

>Hi..
>
>I've been experienceing connection problems to a client's mailserver over the
>weekend.. I have 320 mails in the deferred queue.. The connection problem was
>the connection was timing out (from trying to telnet to thier mailserver and
>from doing a traceroute, I had a feeling the my mail server's IP had found it's
>way into a firewall "DROP" list..
>
>Anyway, the connection issue seems to have been resolved now (i.e. the logs are
>telling/showing me that the test mails I have sent this evening are getting
>through..
>
>So, I thought super.. I'll postqueue -f and the 320 defered mails will vanish
>and finally be delivered. Except that they all came back with the same timeout
>message.
>
>
there may be a rate limit somewhere in the path. try flushing few mails
only and see if they are delivered.