Move the mqueue directory to something like mqueue-temp and make a
new one with same permissions/owners (do this with sendmail stopped)
then start sendmail, once load is low enough you can start a new sendmail
process to process that mqueue-temp like this:
sendmail -q -oQ/full/path/to/mqueue-temp
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:23:32PM -0800, Kelson Vibber wrote:
>
> sendmail -q -O QueueDirectory=/path/to/queue
>
> That starts a sendmail process that will run through the queue once.
>
If your queue is large (and the concept of "large" really depends on
your hardware -- it could mean 1000 ent
Stephen Ford wrote:
We had one of our internal mail servers die for a
little while today and when I run mailq (I'm on a
Solaris 9 system) there are 1600 messages waiting with
connection refused errors in /var/spool/mqueue.
This should do it:
sendmail -q -O QueueDirectory=/path/to/queue
That
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:50 PM
To: mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: [Mimedefang] resending mail sent to /var/spool/mail
We had one of our internal mail servers die for a
little while today and when I run mailq (I'm on a
Solaris 9 system) there are 1600 messages waiting
We had one of our internal mail servers die for a
little while today and when I run mailq (I'm on a
Solaris 9 system) there are 1600 messages waiting with
connection refused errors in /var/spool/mqueue.
However, since I'm using mimedefang with sendmail as a
gateway, my sendmail processes are only
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