Re: [cobalt-users] mqueue.in questions

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 29 December 2003 07:54 am, Kham Vue wrote:

> 1)  Why haven't SENDMAIL send them yet?

They're probably "stuck"; i.e., there's no valid address to send them 
to.  This can occasionally happen, though it's not supposed to.  I just 
cleaned out a queue for a client a few minutes ago.

> 2) Can I just delete them?
>
> 3) If can delete, are there additional files to delete (like
> pointers, headers, etc)?

All the files are in /var/spool/mqueue.  Usually if you just replace the 
first character of the filename with a "?" (without the quotes) you'll 
delete all the files.  If you delete only some of the files that make 
up a message it won't hurt anything.

I generally turn off sendmail before I clean the queue, then turn it 
back on afterwards, just to make sure I don't try to delete something 
as sendmail is trying to send it.

Jeff
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