Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:58:10 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail deferred email? Message-ID: <20040323175810.GE973@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEFFFKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEFFFKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:46:32PM -0500, JJB wrote:
> I see in mail log some deferred email being held.
> Is there a way to clear this email from sendmail?
You can process the mail queue manually by:
# /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -v
or
# /usr/sbin/sendmail -Ac -q -v=20
for the clientmqueue stuff.
(-v means verbose -- you can omit that, but it's kind of amusing to
watch)
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> Maybe so sendmail sub command?
If your mail system is set up correctly, there should be a process
that runs regularly (every 30min is usual) to flush the queue. If you:
# cat /var/run/sendmail.pid
or
# cat /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid
the second line shows the arguments used to startup sendmail. There
should be something like '-q30m' in there.
Messages can get stuck in the mail queue for valid reasons --
destination site is down, DNS fubarred, loss of network connectivity
etc. Use:
# mailq -v
or
# mailq -Ac -v
to see the status of all messages in the mail queue or the client mail
queue.
Cheers,
Matthew
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