Re: [root: Cleaning of Mail Queue]

[Andy Poling <andy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>]

On Fri, 23 Dec 1994, Bob Stringfield, ODCSPER wrote:
> My question
> was what to do about systems that are down for weeks and no
> headway is made for getting them back on line.

Well, this sounds like a perfect application for an
smtp/host.name.dom.ain entry in the scheduler.conf file for those 
machines.

In case I'm not making sense, here's an example:

# problem site - expire immediately
smtp/heidelberg-emh1.army.mil
	maxhost=1
	maxchannel=1
	gangchedule
	byhost
	retries="60"
	skew=1
	expiry=1h
	command="smtp -e -l /var/spool/log/smtp -- $host"

This should cause all mail to that site to be bounced back if not delivered
in one hour.  Make sense?

-Andy

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