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

[Theodore Jones <theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan,

great... thanks much for the advice

Sales - Way to the Web wrote:

> 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.