Re: [Lug-Nuts] deque a message from sendmail

From: Brian Lavender (brian@brie.com)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 12:01:13 PST


Ok, I executed the command mailq and it showed the undelivered message in the
queue. I went in as root and I deleted the message from /var/spool/mqueue.
Is there a user command to do this?

On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:35:39AM -0800, Mike Machado wrote:
>
> You have two options (that I know of). One, run sendmail -q and it will
> attempt to redeliver right away,
> or do mailq and see the message number and delete the corresponding file
> in /var/spool/mqueue.
>
> Brian Lavender wrote:
> >
> > I have an outgoing message on my system that sendmail can not deliver.
> > I know that it is sitting in my sendmail que and has not been relayed.
> > My sendmail will try to send a message for 5 days. I know it will
> > eventually fail, but I am wondering how to take the message out of
> > the que.
> >
> > How do I remove a message from Sendmail's que?

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Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/
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