Re: how to kill mail in queue?

["Anthony E . Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:46:31 gary wrote:
>after deleting those queues, I got the following messages from maillog
>
>Feb 28 13:39:23 mail sendmail[977]: MAA27262: SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot
>open
>dfMAA27262: No such file or directory

It means you should have stopped sendmail before deleting the queue files. I
knew that would cause a problem as soon as I read the offered solution, but
it was already too late...

>Feb 28 13:39:27 mail sendmail[977]: MAA27262: to=<m26753 prodigy com>,
>delay=41:03:14, xdelay=00:00:04, mailer=esmtp,
relay=clmin5-ext.prodigy.com.
>[207.115.58.24], stat=Deferred: 450 4.7.1 <m26753 prodigy com>... Relaying
>temporarily denied. Cannot resolve PTR record for 203.127.111.71
>
>What does the 1st & 2nd message mean?

The second log entry means the reciever SMTP at Prodigy cannot match your
SMTP server's IP address with a hostname. Until it can, it will not relay
your message. This is an anti-spam measure. Most legitimate mail servers are
DNS registered. Most machines setup as spam relays are not DNS registered.

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