"P. R. Seshan" wrote:
> I am using sendmail as mail server. I've about 10 mails stuck in my mail
> queue stating an I/O error. Is there any way to remove the mail from the
> mailq. if so how ?
Look in /var/spool/mqueue
All messages queued for delivery are stored there.
>
> Now that that area of disk where mailq is stored is corrupted, is there
> any way to redirect the mail queue in to a different area temporarily
> till I procure another disk ?
I suppose you could first delete the mqueue directory, and then recreate
it with the same rights.
Actually, run a fsck before recreating it. You should stop sendmail
before you do this: kill %sendmail should work.
Then after you recreate the directory, restart sendmail:
sendmail -bd
HTH
Philip
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