Re: [cobalt-users] clear mailq

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 02:23  PM, Gregg1492@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Would someone please either send directions on how to clear the mailq or 
> suggest another way to stop the problem.

Does your ability to see "mailq" mean you have CLI (SSH) access to your 
server? You imply that. You can clear the queue pretty easily from the 
command line, as root (I've removed email addresses below, but otherwise 
this is cut-and-paste):

[root mail]# mailq
/var/spool/mqueue/q1 is empty
                /var/spool/mqueue/q2 (1 request)
----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- 
------------Sender/Recipient------------
gB4KIAw18128      642 Wed Dec  4 15:18 <x@xxxxx>
                 (Deferred: Name server: x.x.net.: host name lookup)
                                       <x@xxxxx>
                /var/spool/mqueue/q3 (1 request)
----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- 
------------Sender/Recipient------------
gB5KRaw15024     1405 Thu Dec  5 15:27 <x@xxxxx>
                 (Deferred: Connection refused by x.x.edu.)
                                       <x@xxxxx>
/var/spool/mqueue/q4 is empty
                Total Requests: 2
[root mail]#

Notice I've got two files in the mail queue. There are four queue 
directories here - /var/spool/mqueue/q1 through q4. My queued messages are 
in q2 and q3. Their file names are under the "Q-ID" column of the mailq 
output. So I could remove them from the queue with the following commands:

[root mail]# rm /var/spool/mqueue/q2/gB4KIAw18128
[root mail]# rm /var/spool/mqueue/q3/gB5KRaw15024

...and I'd have an empty queue.

Make sense?

Of course, if you've really got 84 pending messages, I suspect that the 
queue itself is a symptom of a larger problem!

pjm