Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:27:54 -0500 From: "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Sendmail deferred email? Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGIEFIFKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <20040323175810.GE973@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Did sendmail -q -v and mailq
The 15 deferred emails are still there deferred.
So let me change my question from
Is there a way to clear this email from sendmail?
To
Is there a way to FORCE DELETE this deferred email from sendmail?
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:58 PM
To: JJB
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG
Subject: Re: Sendmail deferred email?
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
for the clientmqueue stuff.
(-v means verbose -- you can omit that, but it's kind of amusing to
watch)
> 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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