RE: [cobalt-users] expunging a q'd mail... [RaQ3i]

[Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Theo,

> shoot, i did the delete from the mail-q without first 
> stopping sendmail... so
> what's the method of cleaning up now...?

I would suggest stopping sendmail. Issue a mailq and see if anything else is
reporting as processing. Check to see if any sendmail processes are actually
still running (ps ax), if they are and the mailq reports that problem mail
still, issue a (killall sendmail) then check the /home/spool/mqueue again.
If there are relevant files still there, rm them and THEN restart sendmail.

Some of this may be unnecessary or overkill, but I've had the same situation
as yourself before and I went through this procedure and cleared out the
problem completely.

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson

Way to the Web Ltd
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