bounced emails

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

In general, when the server is unable to deliver a message, the MTA places 
it into a queue, and attempts delivery periodically which is configurable. 
In general an email will remain in the queue for several days (postfix 
default is 5 days). 
On Thursday 26 May 2005 11:29 am, Howard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to fix the problem of a particular email bouncing
> back.  I'm using AIX v5.1.  I thought I had found the issue but,
> apparently, it's still trying to deliver.  For the particular
> address in question, there was a .forward file out there for
> this user.  I thought I had deleted the user then, found that
> the directory was still there, with the .forward in tact.  I
> deleted this file.  One of my questions are the server attempted
> to send the file on 5/23 and, I just deleted this file
> yesterday.  Would it still keep trying to this email until it
> exhausts itself?  Or, what?

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