RE: [cobalt-users] "email stuck in the qube 3" [self correction and followup]

["Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > 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.

Rethinking this briefly, in /var/spool/mqueue (/home/spool/mqueue) you
*might* also see the same ID but prepended with "xf" as well. These too
should be deleted for the mail to truly be expunged.

SO after running mailq and finding the problem mail ID, you could (again as
root) and using the above example do this;

[root@reddingsboot /root]# rm /home/spool/mqueue/*ff7ILH5X27215
which of course will remove any prepended ID terminating with the above
referenced message ID, this way you don't have to mess with deleting
individual files.

Sorry I pounded out my previous post in too much of a hurry and forgot to
add these rather important matters to the howto.

Groetjes,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven