qmail-queue question

[Edward McLain]

I’ve got a slight problem here and hoping that someone can help solve this.� Due to a high volume of stupid users and mailing list addicts on our network (a small isp) we tend to get a lot of bounced messages, or messages to address that don’t exist or what have you.� The problem here is that they start to fill the queue up pretty fast.� Now this isn’t that big of a problem anymore since I raised our connection limit way the hell up there.� But I have messages that are getting stuck in the queue sometimes for more than 3 weeks.� I have /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime set to 345600 (4 days).� Anyone have any idea why this is happening?�   Just to answer all the simple questions: Q. Is the file readable by qmail? A. -rw-r--r--��� 1 root���� qmail���������� 7 Jul 20 18:06 queuelifetime   Q. What do the logs say about the messages? A. @400000003b71c07c05d4d9ec.s:@400000003b71ba7b07110754 starting delivery 5: msg 112535 to remote emailTrimmed ����������� That is all I can find in the qmail-send logs about it   Q. Is it bouncing? A. Output from mailq | grep 112535 : 31 Jul 2001 01:01:12 GMT� #112535� 15511� <emailAddressTrimmed >   On a side note, is there any reason that qmail-remote should start up and then just sit there connected to a remote host for like 6 or 7 hours trying to send one email?� I get this all the freaking time and I’m just wandering what exactly the freaking thing is doing? (although this problem only really seems to occur with mindspring.com, yet if I telnet to port 25 of mindsprings mail server and send the same message through telnet to the same user, from the same user as the one qmail’s trying to send it works just fine and I don’t get any errors or return codes.)   Any thoughts would be appreciated.   Later,   Ed McLain High Speed Solutions