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Date:      Thu, 9 May 2002 10:14:33 -0700
From:      Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc:        Claus Assmann <ca+greg@esmtp.org>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq'
Message-ID:  <15578.44665.659133.376552@horsey.gshapiro.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020509120932.03016918@mail.sage-one.net>
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jackstone> The list keeps dwindling down, but the ones left have mostly
jackstone> "server reset" or "server timeout". But, even though sendmail is
jackstone> being loyal in its attempts to deliver, I know now that the
jackstone> emails are stale (one guy died for instance)..... so, there's no
jackstone> point in sendmail keeping on, but as long as it doesn't
jackstone> interfere with the next mailings, I suppose there's nothing to
jackstone> be concerned about if they go away after 5 days. I have purged
jackstone> these stale addresses from the mail list so they won't be put
jackstone> though again....

If you actually want to get rid of a queued item, use:

sendmail -qIqueue-id -oTimeout.queuereturn=now

where queue-id is the queue ID from the mailq output.  Make sure you
specify one otherwise you'll bounce everything in your mail queue.

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