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To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq'
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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....!

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Jack L. Stone
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