Another way to do that is to simply touch the file with a date that makes it older than your queue lifetime (set in /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime). I prefer this method since I don't need to stop qmail-send (which is difficult on a box that typically has 20-30k messages in queue). When qmail goes to deliver the message it will notice it's too old and dump it.
-Clayton -----Original Message----- From: Bill Gradwohl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Qmail queue Andrew Averin wrote: >Hi all, >How could I clean qmail queue manually???? > > Here's a script I use. I call it nukequeueitem. It shuts down send, waits for that to happen, and then nukes the specified items and restarts send. Call it like this: ./nukequeueitem 123456 2342454 123123 where the numbers after it are the numbers of the queue items you want to nuke. #!/bin/bash [ $# -eq 0 ] && exit 1 svc -d /service/qmail-send echo 'Working ...' sleep 2s while ! svstat /service/qmail-send | grep ': down'; do echo Still up. sleep 2s done for x in $@; do echo nuking $x find /var/qmail/queue -name ${x} -exec rm {} ';' done echo svc -u /service/qmail-send sleep 3s svstat /service/* -- Bill Gradwohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ycc.com spamSTOMPER Protected email