On 2009-12-28 5:17 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> When a user mistypes a remote e-mail address (not that THAT ever
> happens!), the result is typically either a "user unknown", "invalid
> recipient", or "host or domain not found" message.  At least for MY
> system, with MY configuration (however flawed it may be), this results
> in a couple messages floating in the send queue with these statuses. 
> Periodically, I'll check for such items, notify my users of a problem,
> and delete them from the queue.

Per the welcome message you received when you joined the list:

TO REPORT A PROBLEM see:
http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail

At a minimum, postfix version, output of postconf -n and unedited
NON-verbose logs exhibiting the problem should be provided...

This should provide an answer to Wietse's question as to why these are
stuck in the queue when they should be returned immediately.

> Also, is there any e-mail interface for canceling messages?  So that if
> a slightly more competent user actually READS the bounce message,
> determines that they spelled it wrong - they can tell the mail server to
> cancel the send?

Fix the real problem (above) and this problem goes away...

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Best regards,

Charles

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