Re: deleting selected/filtered mails in sendmail queue
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, [iso-8859-1] Erik Dörnbach wrote: Is there anything available either in sendmail itself (something like sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED], just for deleting and not queuerun) which I haven't found yet or some additional tools/scripts whatever. i clean out the sendmail queue with http://www.linux-sec.net/Mail/etc.mail/mqueue.clean.pl - it shows who sent it and where it's going - modify it to your specs/requirements - the assumption is that old pending mail is undeliverable and will just sit there indefinitely, as opposed to you deleting the mail at the same exact instant that sendmail is sending the outgoing mail that would be corrupted due to the deletion - always restart sendmail after cleaning its queue c ya alvin
RE: deleting selected/filtered mails in sendmail queue
From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:25 PM i clean out the sendmail queue with http://www.linux-sec.net/Mail/etc.mail/mqueue.clean.pl - it shows who sent it and where it's going - modify it to your specs/requirements I'm not sure I understand correctly, what this script is supposed to do, in my case I have lots of currently undeliverable mails sitting in queue, but those still haven't timed out (on sendmail default values, 5days iirc), so even the bounces did now generate the 4h warning which in it self also bounce! :) Anyway, those mails in the queue are not just dead yet, others pending might be real mails, which will be delievered sooner or later. I just wanted to scrub those out of the queue without touching other mails (filtered by name/domain) which are really pending because of eg. temporary unreachable servers. Thanks, Erik
RE: deleting selected/filtered mails in sendmail queue
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, [iso-8859-1] Erik Dörnbach wrote: From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:25 PM i clean out the sendmail queue with http://www.linux-sec.net/Mail/etc.mail/mqueue.clean.pl - it shows who sent it and where it's going - modify it to your specs/requirements I'm not sure I understand correctly, what this script is supposed to do it does what you wanted .. to clean the queue, but if you don;t speak perl, it wont help you - it's a minute or two to test that it works before setting it to delete undeliverable mail .. leaving others alone c ya alvin
