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Note the ID number (line 1, first group of digits)associated with each email
currently in the queue in the following snipped exerpt from a mailq:
<snip>
f7ILH5X27215     1177 Sat Aug 18 23:17 owner-frontnieuws@www.<domainname>.nl
      8BITMIME   (host map: lookup (fnmail.com): deferred)
                                       <username>@fnmail.com
</snip>

If you do an "ls -al /var/spool/mqueue" (or /home/spool/mqueue if you're set
up properly) you will see files with this ID, but prepended with either "df"
or "qf"

So "f7ILH5X27215" becomes:
dff7ILH5X27215
qff7ILH5X27215
As root, (not possible unless you are BTW)delete BOTH these files and that
mail headed for <username>@fnmail.com is toast...it's gone...forever.
Don't delete the user, delete the problem mail. I'm sure your life and the
users' life will be measureably less stressful as a result! :-)

Other issues to think about:
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1. If this is happening constantly BTW, you need to carefully examine the
output of mailq to see what reason(s) mailq tells you it cannot deliver the
mail.
	1.(a)Is it always the same reason?
	1.(b)Is it always the same user?
2. Take a look at your DNS if this is happening all the time. That's outside
the scope of this response so I won't pursue the subject.

As a followup suggestion, in *your* .profile set mailq to run upon login.
It's helpful to see the output each time you login to your machine, it's a
quick check to see how things are running.

HTH
Met vriendelijke groeten,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven