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i wrongly type the email address ( abc@yahoo.com as abc@yhoo.com), and the error message i receive is like the following:

Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours


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** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
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The original message was received at Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:48:32 +0800
from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]

----- Transcript of session follows -----
<abc@yhoo.com>... Deferred: Connection refused by yhoo.com.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old


can someone help me how to remove this mail from server so that this mail will not keep continue looping on the server..

On your server, run mailq. You'll get output like the following:



The message ID is l9T0Z0UA000957 in this case. Now go to /var/spool/mqueue and delete *l9T0Z0UA000957 (usually dfl9T0Z0UA000957, qfl9T0Z0UA000957 and xfl9T0Z0UA000957). Run mailq again to verify the message is now gone.

thanks a lot,

to delete the mail, is it any other command beside i use:

rm -f file *l9T0Z0UA000957

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Remove the word "file", otherwise you are spot on. -f will force a delete without promting, which can be dangerous if you're not careful. -i (default on RH, at least) will prompt for each file.

Hi,

Just for reference, this message is not looping, it is just in the queue waiting for a server to respond and accept it. It will remove itself in a few days, and is perfectly normal behaviour.

Thanks.
Andrew.