From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 11 17:25:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02695 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:25:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oz.phear.net (slwag1p06.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02680 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@phrantic.phear.net) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by oz.phear.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA01078; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:22:58 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:22:52 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: Mike <70720.1771@compuserve.com> cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to nuke the mailqueue? In-Reply-To: <199811112000_MC2-5FED-3556@compuserve.com> 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 Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Mike wrote: > Thanks to everybody for their help, I got my anti relay rules going! > > Now, how do I purge the mailq of all the crap that was built up. > I must have 300 things inthere. Can I just do a rm *? > > Whats the best way to do this? > You should be able to remove everything in /var/spool/mqueue safely. However, any legitimate mail that's there will also be lost. Hope this helps, Jim : Jim Mock | [jim@phrantic.phear.net] : : Phear Networks | web: http://www.phear.net/ : : A franchise of Triax, Inc. | ----------------------------- : : Web Site Design & Hosting | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message