Re: badmail wanted

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"bill tie" <billtie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Thank you for your post.
>
>> Or, if this is just a test machine, shorten the message
>expiry time to, say 5 minutes.
>
>T-H-A-T did the trick. If I could, I'd reduce it to seconds.

You'd be really sorry if you did. Messages that couldn't be delivered
to the target servers within that short period would be returned as
undeliverable. SMTP is NOT a real-time means of cmmunication. It's a
store-and-forward operation. If a DNS doesn't return an answer in, say
30 seconds, returning the message as undeliverable is insane. If
another server is too busy to accept your connection *right now* the
messages would expire. That's just plain nuts.

>At long last,
>I see bad mail in the BadMail folder.

I still don't think you "get" that what you'll see in there is a LOT
of nothing that you'll be interested in. You'll find lots of
undeliverable NDRs and, intermixed in them, might be one or two
"interesting" (to you) messages.

>> Or, try selecting the message and deleting it with a NDR.
>
>What message, where? Could you explain? I'm just curious.

Select the queue in the "Retry" state. Right-click and select "Find
messages". Then click the "Find Now" button. From there, select the
message(s), right-click them and select "Delete (with NDR)".

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Rich Matheisen
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