From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 19 15:56:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08893 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08870 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA12216; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:56:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:56:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Spidey cc: Question=answer Subject: Re: Recovering sendmail crashes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 May 1998, Spidey wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to know something... I recently fetch my mail from my remote POP3 > server with fetchmail. It dunmped all the messages on my local sendmail > daemon as expected... Theonly problem is that, because of a > misonfiguration in my domainnames etc some mail got lost thru the queue. > So I have 2 questions: > > 1) Is there a way to purge to mail queue without sending the messages? cd /var/spool/mqueue rm * ???? > 2) I got a bunch ('bout 20) messages waiting for me in the > /var/spool/mqueue dir. They seem to be marked to be deleted, and are not > part of the queue. Any idea of how I might recover this? What format are they in? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message