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RE: Queued mail messages.

#656
From: Kevin V. Carosso
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:05
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>	When ever I look at the mail queues, with @pmdf_root:[exe]qm
>	all I see are mail messages with sizes and dates. What I would
>	like to know is why a particular message is queued. The "postmaster"
>	sometimes receives copies of mail to various users stating his
>	mail sent is queued for three days and will continue to be queued
>	for "n" more days, the question is WHY is this particular
>	message being queued and resent. Often the user wants to know.

All messages are queued.  That is the first thing that happens to them.  I
think the question you are asking is "how can I see why a message has not been
dequeued".  That is "why hasn't it left the queue and gone to wherever it
is supposed to go".

Currently the only way to answer that question is to look at the .LOG file for
the channel in PMDF_ROOT:[LOG] (for example, if queued in [QUEUE.MTCP_LOCAL]
look in MTCP_LOCAL_MASTER.LOG.  You should see error messages in there that
occur when the channel program processes the messages.  Enabling "master_debug"
for the channel by adding that keyword to the channel definition line in
PMDF_ROOT:[TABLE]PMDF.CNF may provide additional information around the error
to help figure out the problem.

In PMDF V4.2 we improve this a lot by logging the failures with the message.

	/Kevin Carosso
	 Innosoft
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