topic Re: Howto empty a mailq in Operating System - HP-UX

Howto empty a mailq

Arjen Verhulst — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:46:41 GMT

Help !!

After I have send a mail with sendmail I want empty the mailq. I now there is a command to empty the mailq but i forgot it.

I use the folowing command to create the mail:

echo "hello" |mailx -s "test" adress@domain.nl
and I use mailq to whatch in the queue.

Is there anyone how nows to empty the mailq?

Thanks.

Arjen

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Mark Grant — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:59:40 GMT

I think you only need to delete the files in /var/spool/mqueue

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Arjen Verhulst — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:23:59 GMT

Thanks for the fast reply...

But I now that it is possible to delete the files in /var/spool/mqueue to empty the queue.

So far I can remember there is a line command to delete a single message of the mailq by using the mail id from that message.

Arjen.

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Graham Cameron_1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:16:00 GMT

When you say you want to empty the mailq, I assume you want all items in it to be sent out.

If so, "sendmail -o" should do this, but you really should have sendmail configured to poll and action this queue automatically.
Typically, sendmail is started at boot time with "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m"

See man sendmail

And see /var/adm/syslog/mail.log for diagnostics.

-- Graham

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Arjen Verhulst — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:37:33 GMT

What I mean is as follow, I want to delete a mail before it is send out of the mailq.

Arjen

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Graham Cameron_1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:44:15 GMT

In that case, you need to do exactly as Mark suggested earlier.

cd /var/spool/mqueue/
rm *
(or rm the specifi one you want)

-- Graham

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Arjen Verhulst — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:52:51 GMT

isn't it possible to delete a mail job with a line command ( like an at job "at -r " )

Arjen

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Mark Greene_1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:16:56 GMT

To force flush the mailq, run this:

sendmail -v -d8.20 -q

mark

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Elmar P. Kolkman — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:48:36 GMT

Use mailq to get the mail-id
Then go to /var/spool/mqueue and delete all files with the specified mail-id on the end:
rm *

(The mail-id is the first column of output from mailq.)

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:53:07 GMT

The first best way to empty the mail queue (mailq shows it) is to run sendmail -q as root.

This should clear it off if there is a connection issue.

If that does not work and it REALLY needs to be cleared rm -f /var/spool/mqueue/*

The -f supresses warning messages. Once its gone, its gone. No bringing it back to life.

Understand that sometimes inbound mail being boucned by a spam filter will create mqueue entries.

To trouble test:

sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 someone@someaddress.com
Type some text

.

This might help you figure out why the mail is hanging up.

SEP

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Arjen Verhulst — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:12:49 GMT

Thanks for all these reply's so far.

I haven't not get the right anwser yet,but can try to make a script that empty the files with the right mail-id in /var/spool/mqueue

Arjen

Re: Howto empty a mailq

Elmar P. Kolkman — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:25:13 GMT

I'm afraid the command you're looking for is mailrm. It's a mail I've seen in the past, but isn't available on HP-UX.