Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 10:14:33 -0700
From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc: Claus Assmann <ca+greg@esmtp.org>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq'
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jackstone> The list keeps dwindling down, but the ones left have mostly jackstone> "server reset" or "server timeout". But, even though sendmail is jackstone> being loyal in its attempts to deliver, I know now that the jackstone> emails are stale (one guy died for instance)..... so, there's no jackstone> point in sendmail keeping on, but as long as it doesn't jackstone> interfere with the next mailings, I suppose there's nothing to jackstone> be concerned about if they go away after 5 days. I have purged jackstone> these stale addresses from the mail list so they won't be put jackstone> though again.... If you actually want to get rid of a queued item, use: sendmail -qIqueue-id -oTimeout.queuereturn=now where queue-id is the queue ID from the mailq output. Make sure you specify one otherwise you'll bounce everything in your mail queue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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