Re: [Lug-Nuts] deque a message from sendmail

From: Michael Long (mlong@ns.net)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 12:32:44 PST


Do you really want any user to go and delete mail from the que? :)

Mike

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Brian Lavender wrote:

> Ok, I executed the command mailq and it showed the undelivered message in the
> queue. I went in as root and I deleted the message from /var/spool/mqueue.
> Is there a user command to do this?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:35:39AM -0800, Mike Machado wrote:
> >
> > You have two options (that I know of). One, run sendmail -q and it will
> > attempt to redeliver right away,
> > or do mailq and see the message number and delete the corresponding file
> > in /var/spool/mqueue.
> >
> > Brian Lavender wrote:
> > >
> > > I have an outgoing message on my system that sendmail can not deliver.
> > > I know that it is sitting in my sendmail que and has not been relayed.
> > > My sendmail will try to send a message for 5 days. I know it will
> > > eventually fail, but I am wondering how to take the message out of
> > > the que.
> > >
> > > How do I remove a message from Sendmail's que?
>
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
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