Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:23:06 -0700 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org> To: Chris Byrnes <chris@JEAH.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail: clientmqueue directory storing massive messages, not being cleared Message-ID: <20030606052306.GD61519@horsey.gshapiro.net> In-Reply-To: <0a6f01c32be1$a4b3f940$1abcd118@wi.rr.com> References: <0a6f01c32be1$a4b3f940$1abcd118@wi.rr.com>
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> I never even knew that directory existed. I thought everything queued was > kept in /var/spool/mqueue (which, I might add is being taken care of on a > regular basis.. just seems the problem lies in the /var/spool/clientmqueue > directory). Is this a new thing that I'm stupidly unaware of? > > Can you please explain the difference between /var/spool/clientmqueue and > /var/spool/mqueue and why one seems to be taken care of regularly, but the > other had 42,000 unsent messages? When I start sendmail, I've always just > run "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q60m -h10 -R full". Do I need to do something > differently? Please read /etc/mail/README (or /usr/src/etc/mail/README if you don't keep /etc/ up to date). Also, `man rc.sendmail` for more information about sendmail startup.
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