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Mailman and the Plesk Mail Queue

DeanC@

Basic Pleskian
This is on a Plesk 8.2/CentOS server.

Mail seems to be coming and going just fine. However, for a couple of Mailman mailing lists, there will be entries in the Plesk Control Panel Mail Queue for days.

The sender will be, of course, something like, list-bounces@somedomain.com and there will be a subset of the list subscribers in the recipients column.

I know that at least some of those recipients are receiving the mail.

What does that recipients list really mean? Is there perhaps one address, or a couple of addresses, among the recipients that are bad or to whom the mail is undeliverable?

I'm not getting, or don't appear to be getting, undeliverable bounce messages. Or, am I just not waiting long enough for an undeliverable notice to show up? I usually delete them after a few days. Does qmail keep trying for 5 days?

I'm just trying to figure out what's really going on with those few lists. I've searched and read for hours but don't see an answer to this problem here in the forums. If I've missed it, please direct me.
 
The maximum time in the queue is controlled by /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime. If that file doesn't exist (it doesn't in a default setup) this value defaults to 604800 (seconds), which is one week.
 
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