Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 12:55:10 -0500
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Claus Assmann <ca+greg@esmtp.org>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq'
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020509125510.03016918@mail.sage-one.net>
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At 10:14 AM 5.9.2002 -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: >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. > THAT'S the kind of thing I was looking for, but didn't stand out in the man pages. Thanks very much....! .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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