Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:56:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Cc: Question=answer <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Recovering sendmail crashes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519155549.12213A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519020703.768A-100000@outpost.nada.org>
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Spidey wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to know something... I recently fetch my mail from my remote POP3
> server with fetchmail. It dunmped all the messages on my local sendmail
> daemon as expected... Theonly problem is that, because of a
> misonfiguration in my domainnames etc some mail got lost thru the queue.
> So I have 2 questions:
>
> 1) Is there a way to purge to mail queue without sending the messages?
cd /var/spool/mqueue
rm *
????
> 2) I got a bunch ('bout 20) messages waiting for me in the
> /var/spool/mqueue dir. They seem to be marked to be deleted, and are not
> part of the queue. Any idea of how I might recover this?
What format are they in?
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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