Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:52:01 +0800 From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@yahoo.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "Odhiambo Washington" <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: "e-value - Maxime Mathon" <m.mathon@e-value.fr>, "FBSD-Q" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail Message-ID: <009701c12aa6$ae485c00$f6a145ca@rino> References: <20010821192954.G66076@ns2.wananchi.com> <3B82910F.DB0D2137@e-value.fr> <20010821195636.I66076@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010821224638.A96292@hades.hell.gr>
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> * e-value - Maxime Mathon <m.mathon@e-value.fr> [20010821 19:50]: writing
on the subject 'Re: OT: Sendmail'
> | sendmail stop
> | killall sendmail
> | cd /var/spool/mqueue
> | rm -f *
> | sendmail start
>
>
> That's a wonderful clue. I am so much biased towards Exim. Now may I ask
> one more question: Suppose I want to remove only frozen messages - I can
> get the message ID?? In Exim I simply do 'exim -Mrm Message-ID' ; what do
> guys do in sendmail? I can use sendmail -bp to list the message IDs.
>You can also use something along the lines of the following to see the
>Message-ID's of the queued messages, sorted by date.
>
> % mailq | sed -e '1,2d' | grep -v '^[[:space:]]' | sort +2
> f7LJSwU96783 9 Tue Aug 21 22:28 charon
> f7LJUCh96806 13 Tue Aug 21 22:30 charon
> f7LJUsS96824 5 Tue Aug 21 22:30 charon
> f7LJV3b96829 5 Tue Aug 21 22:31 charon
>
>Or if you only want the Message-Id and the date, use the following:
>
> % mailq | sed -e 1,2d | grep -v '^[[:space:]]' |\
>awk '{printf "%s\t%s %s %2d %s\n",$1,$3,$4,$5,$6}' | sort +1
>
>which, for the same queue files would produce:
>
> f7LJSwU96783 Tue Aug 21 22:28
> f7LJUCh96806 Tue Aug 21 22:30
> f7LJUsS96824 Tue Aug 21 22:30
> f7LJV3b96829 Tue Aug 21 22:31
>If you see in there something that has a very old date, it's probably
>stuck in your queue for a long time. Removing it is easy. Just
>delete the files /var/spool/mqueue/dfXXX and /var/spool/mqueue/qfXXX
>when sendmail is stopped.
>
>-giorgos
i would have thought you can use sendmail switches with exim and viceversa.
plus there are sendmail switches which would show/remove you frozen messages
without having to do shell scripts.
anyway, nice to see shell scripts and not perl.
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