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manish
09-07-2002, 06:46 PM
Is there a way to check the outgoing mail queue on the mail servers? I tried to use mailq on NINE but that did not work....

Manish

Terra
09-07-2002, 07:26 PM
Due to new security and privacy measures, this has been locked down and is considered a privileged resource, since it contains information about other site owners mail as well...

We are investigating various methods to provide tunnel vision to the outbound mail queues that is scoped down to your account's activity only... However, the problem with this is a high amount of overhead to do realtime parsing, especially with high volume mail servers...

I for one would like to offer it, however the technological challenges must be solved first as our primary goal is to get the email out the door as quickly as possible with minimal delays...

In retrospect, we did implement a 'Deferred Warning' system that alerts you after 4 hours if any of your email is waiting in our queues due to a remote SMTP server that is down...

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