topic Re: Sendmail Message Queue in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail Message Queue

David Crowe — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:26:06 GMT

I have a problem with a message trying to connect to a non-existant mail server. I want to remove it from the mail queue but I'm not sure if I can just go into the mqueue directory and delete both the qf and df files for that message ID? Is there a better way?

Re: Sendmail Message Queue

Clemens van Everdingen — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:34:44 GMT

Hi,

No problem doing that.
Just remove the files.

C.

Re: Sendmail Message Queue

Clemens van Everdingen — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:37:52 GMT

Re: Sendmail Message Queue

S.K. Chan — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:39:12 GMT

You would only want to remove old files. Check the timestamp on those files before removing them.

Re: Sendmail Message Queue

David Crowe — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:56:43 GMT

Thanks for the speedy replies. I just wanted confirmation that I wouldn't screw anything up by removing the files.

Re: Sendmail Message Queue

Jeff Schussele — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:19:15 GMT

Hi David,

I normally do a rm *msgID as there can sometimes be a third file involved - an xf file I believe. I think it's there if the msg is being processed at the time. Again there's no problem doing this - sendmail will just move on to the next msg.

Rgds,
Jeff