Dear postfix people, I just sent a message I should not have sent, using my local postfix setup, which forwards to a smarthost for further processing.
After sending the message, I almost immediately pulled the plug, and
looking at mailq, I felt good about that:
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
3DE8FEF5 5142 Tue Feb 16 13:48:14 madd...@lapse.rw.madduck.net
fri...@gmail.com
-- 5 Kbytes in 1 Request.
So I removed it:
% sudo postsuper -d 3DE8FEF5
postsuper: 3DE8FEF5: removed
postsuper: Deleted: 1 message
and checked mailq, which now reported an empty queue.
I then reconnected, and syslog rewarded me with:
13:49:51 lapse postfix/smtp[17216]: 3DE8FEF5: to=<fri...@gmail.com>,
relay=b.mx.madduck.net[2001:41e0:ff43::1]:587, delay=97,
delays=0.08/0.01/84/13, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok:
queued as 764981D4099)
Ouch! :(
I realise that I probably connected too quickly and that maybe there
was even an open connection to the smarthost, which didn't timeout
but just resumed (though it was logged >90 seconds after the initial
submission…)
Is there anything I should have done differently, for the next time
this happens? Probably kill the running smtp process, or is there
something else?
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