[cobalt-users] Re: Empty mailque cq force delivery

[Peter Frederick <pfred@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 May 2003 18:14:02 +0200, you wrote:

>I have a question:
>
>How do i force the delivery of a mail which sits in the mailque
>
>i used /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
>

Use mailq to see the quene and find out the message number

then /usr/sbin/sendmail -v -qI# (replacing the # with the message number).
This will connect up showing you the smtp conversation. It gives you a very
good idea whether to remove the entry because it is a permanent error (eg:
no route to host or no domain) or whether to leave it in the queue because
it probably is a temporary error (ie: smtp service not available).

>then using the mailq command sometime later still shows the mail sitting
>there. Any hints, tips and or ticks ??
>

To remove it

cd /var/spool/mqueue/q# where # is the queue number
there will be a pair of files there with that number. Delete them. The
message is now gone. Verify with mailq.

>Thanks Robbert
>
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