Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:10:04 +0300 From: "Odhiambo G. Washington" <DES@freebsd.or.ke> To: Rino Mardo <rmardo@yahoo.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, e-value - Maxime Mathon <m.mathon@e-value.fr>, FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail Message-ID: <20010822101004.T66076@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <009701c12aa6$ae485c00$f6a145ca@rino> References: <20010821192954.G66076@ns2.wananchi.com> <3B82910F.DB0D2137@e-value.fr> <20010821195636.I66076@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010821224638.A96292@hades.hell.gr> <009701c12aa6$ae485c00$f6a145ca@rino>
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* Rino Mardo <rmardo@yahoo.com> [20010822 03:48]: writing on the subject 'R=
e: OT: Sendmail'
| > * e-value - Maxime Mathon <m.mathon@e-value.fr> [20010821 19:50]: writi=
ng
| on the subject 'Re: OT: Sendmail'
| > | sendmail stop
| > | killall sendmail
| > | cd /var/spool/mqueue
| > | rm -f *
| > | sendmail start
| >
| >
| > That's a wonderful clue. I am so much biased towards Exim. Now may I ask
| > one more question: Suppose I want to remove only frozen messages - I can
| > get the message ID?? In Exim I simply do 'exim -Mrm Message-ID' ; what =
do
| > guys do in sendmail? I can use sendmail -bp to list the message IDs.
|=20
| >You can also use something along the lines of the following to see the
| >Message-ID's of the queued messages, sorted by date.
| >
| > % mailq | sed -e '1,2d' | grep -v '^[[:space:]]' | sort +2
| > f7LJSwU96783 9 Tue Aug 21 22:28 charon
| > f7LJUCh96806 13 Tue Aug 21 22:30 charon
| > f7LJUsS96824 5 Tue Aug 21 22:30 charon
| > f7LJV3b96829 5 Tue Aug 21 22:31 charon
| >
| >Or if you only want the Message-Id and the date, use the following:
| >
| > % mailq | sed -e 1,2d | grep -v '^[[:space:]]' |\
| >awk '{printf "%s\t%s %s %2d %s\n",$1,$3,$4,$5,$6}' | sort +1
| >
| >which, for the same queue files would produce:
| >
| > f7LJSwU96783 Tue Aug 21 22:28
| > f7LJUCh96806 Tue Aug 21 22:30
| > f7LJUsS96824 Tue Aug 21 22:30
| > f7LJV3b96829 Tue Aug 21 22:31
|=20
| >If you see in there something that has a very old date, it's probably
| >stuck in your queue for a long time. Removing it is easy. Just
| >delete the files /var/spool/mqueue/dfXXX and /var/spool/mqueue/qfXXX
| >when sendmail is stopped.
| >
| >-giorgos
|=20
| i would have thought you can use sendmail switches with exim and vicevers=
a.
| plus there are sendmail switches which would show/remove you frozen messa=
ges
| without having to do shell scripts.
I am fairly familiar with Exim when it comes to issues like dealing with
queued messages. Another good thing with Exim is that the documentation is
rather superb. While not blaming sendmail, the only problem with me would
appear to be the fact that I stuck my head up my $%^& once I encountered
Exim. Sendmail kinda gives me a challenge but isn't quite appealing to me
as Postfix would. I am going to try and play with a copy of the sendmail
spool using Exim and see what the outcome is.
| anyway, nice to see shell scripts and not perl.
Many ways to kill a rat??? ;-)
-Wash
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Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street.,
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to g=
ive=20
those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like=
. I=20
have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of=20
dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in=
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the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.=20
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