Re: Mail Queue Stall Problem

2018-01-18 Thread Dennis Putnam
Thanks again. I will do so as soon as the problem recurs. On 1/18/2018 3:46 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > >> On Jan 18, 2018, at 3:26 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: >> The messages show in mailq as having timed out and are a few days old. >>> They've probably maxed out the maximal_backoff_time

Re: Mail Queue Stall Problem

2018-01-18 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Jan 18, 2018, at 3:26 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > >>> The messages show in mailq as having timed >>> out and are a few days old. >> They've probably maxed out the maximal_backoff_time and are tried >> infrequently, but are not forgotten. > The default is 4000 seconds according to the docs.

Re: Mail Queue Stall Problem

2018-01-18 Thread Dennis Putnam
Thanks for the reply. See embedded comments. Also note that all messages go through the same destination server. On 1/18/2018 2:55 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > >> On Jan 18, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: >> >> I occasionally encounter a strange problem with the mail queue seemingly >> no

Re: Mail Queue Stall Problem

2018-01-18 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Jan 18, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > > I occasionally encounter a strange problem with the mail queue seemingly > not retrying failed messages. What is your definition of "not retrying"? Messages are retried periodically, with exponential backoff up to the maximal_backoff_tim