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  • How to delete a stuck Email?

    From Diamond Dave@DMINE to All on Sunday, August 11, 2024 09:05:24
    It looks like one of my users tried to send an Internet Email, but it is stuck and I can't figure out how to delete it out of the system.

    The error message is in the format of

    SEND Message #4065 from <user@dmine.net>
    to 'person's name' <mail@domain.com> - in transit

    How do I either 1) get it out of transit or 2) just delete it.

    Thanks!

    *** Diamond Dave ***
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  • From MRO@BBSESINF to Diamond Dave on Sunday, August 11, 2024 09:11:31
    Re: How to delete a stuck Email?
    By: Diamond Dave to All on Sun Aug 11 2024 09:05 am

    It looks like one of my users tried to send an Internet Email, but it is stuck and I can't figure out how to delete it out of the system.

    The error message is in the format of

    SEND Message #4065 from <user@dmine.net>
    to 'person's name' <mail@domain.com> - in transit

    How do I either 1) get it out of transit or 2) just delete it.

    Thanks!

    *** Diamond Dave ***

    you shouldnt even let your users send internet mail.
    you can change your max attempts to something lower.
    you can close synchronet and delete all the mail for the system. c:\sbbs\data\mail.s*

    These are just things I would do. There's more proper ways, I'm sure.
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  • From Digital Man to Diamond Dave on Sunday, August 11, 2024 14:21:31
    Re: How to delete a stuck Email?
    By: Diamond Dave to All on Sun Aug 11 2024 09:05 am

    It looks like one of my users tried to send an Internet Email, but it is stuck and I can't figure out how to delete it out of the system.

    The error message is in the format of

    SEND Message #4065 from <user@dmine.net>
    to 'person's name' <mail@domain.com> - in transit

    How do I either 1) get it out of transit or 2) just delete it.

    You can read about the in-transit attribute (how to clear or ignore it) here: https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#send_mail

    To delete mail, use smbutil or the "mail" sysop command, but that should not be necessary in this case.
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    digital man (rob)

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  • From Diamond Dave@DMINE to Digital Man on Monday, August 12, 2024 04:50:34
    Re: How to delete a stuck Email?
    By: Digital Man to Diamond Dave on Sun Aug 11 2024 02:21 pm

    You can read about the in-transit attribute (how to clear or ignore it) here https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#send_mail

    To delete mail, use smbutil or the "mail" sysop command, but that should not

    Thanks Rob. I'll give that a try. :)

    *** Diamond Dave ***
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