From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 9 10:14:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (horsey.gshapiro.net [209.220.147.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C197F37B407 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:14:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (gshapiro@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g49HEXSd051814 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 9 May 2002 10:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gshapiro@localhost) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g49HEXHE051811; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:14:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15578.44665.659133.376552@horsey.gshapiro.net> Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 10:14:33 -0700 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: Claus Assmann , FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq' In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020509120932.03016918@mail.sage-one.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20020509115700.03016918@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20020509071919.011c7318@mail.sage-one.net> <15577.60930.577722.682790@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20020509012717.GA43918@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <15578.40154.708777.223495@horsey.gshapiro.net> <3.0.5.32.20020509120932.03016918@mail.sage-one.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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