From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 15 1:54:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FB114FCC for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 01:53:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id JAA10087; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:52:53 GMT Message-ID: <36ECD875.50BC602E@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:52:53 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Weinberg, Sandy" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: mail daemon References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Weinberg, Sandy" wrote: > > Hello, > > Are mail daemon was offline, but now everything should be working okay. > But when I type mailq there are still more than 300 mails waiting to be > sent a half-hour later. Is there a way to restart the daemon so that > all the mails will be processed. sendmail -q (to process all emails in the queue - won't return until their all done) -or- sendmail -qRsomedomainname.com where 'somedomainname.com' is a domain name for mails sitting in your queue. The sendmail command will only process those entries then return... This assumes your using Sendmail :-) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message