Sendmail and force the mqueue

[Coolmar]

Hi,

I have three messages stuck in the mqueue. How can I force them through. I tried /usr/sbin/sendmail -q and nothing. Any ideas?

[Peter Nikitka · Accepted solution]

Hi,

what is the output when running these commands:

mqueue

/usr/sbin/sendmail -q -d

mqueue


If sendmail does not give any output, check if the binary is correct.


mfG Peter

[Geoff Wild]

sendmail -q

should suffice

If you don't want them, just delete them.

cd /var/spool/mqueue and rm them

Also - if sendmail is disabled as a daemon, add this to root's cron:

# Make sure any queued mail is delivered, as sendmail isn't a daemon anymore
39 * * * * /usr/lib/sendmail -q


Rgds...Geoff

[Ivan Ferreira]

Normally, those messages can't go because a problem with the destination address. After you run the sendmail -q, you should check your mail log file to see why the message was not sent (No route to host, DNS failure, etc).

[Coolmar]

What happened was that the load went up high so sendmail stopped sending messages. I then changed the RefuseLA and restarted sendmail daemon. However, these messages won't go...and they are required so I can't delete them. Here is the output of sendmail -q -d


Version 8.9.3 (PHNE_29774)
Compiled with: LDAPMAP MAP_REGEX LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
NAMED_BIND NDBM NETINET NETUNIX NEWDB NIS NISPLUS QUEUE SCANF
SMTP USERDB XDEBUG
setoption SevenBitInput (7).=False
setoption EightBitMode (8).=pass8
setoption AliasWait (a).=10
setoption AliasFile (A).=/etc/mail/aliases
setoption MinFreeBlocks (b).=100
setoption BlankSub (B).=.
setoption HoldExpensive (c).=False
setoption DeliveryMode (d).=background
setoption TempFileMode (F).=0600
setoption HelpFile (H).=/usr/share/lib/sendmail.hf
setoption SendMimeErrors (j).=True
setoption ForwardPath (J).=$z/.forward.$w+$h:$z/.forward+$h:$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward
setoption ConnectionCacheSize (k).=2
setoption ConnectionCacheTimeout (K).=5m
setoption UseErrorsTo (l).=False
setoption LogLevel (L).=9
setoption CheckAliases (n).=False
setoption OldStyleHeaders (o).=True
setoption PrivacyOptions (p).=authwarnings
setoption QueueDirectory (Q).=/var/spool/mqueue
setoption Timeout (r).queuereturn=5d
setoption Timeout (r).queuewarn=4h
setoption SuperSafe (s).=True
setoption StatusFile (S).=/etc/mail/sendmail.st
setoption TimeZoneSpec (t).=
setoption DefaultUser (u).=1:1
setoption TryNullMXList (w).=T
setoption RefuseLA (X).=52
setoption SmtpGreetingMessage (0x90).=$j Sendmail $v/$Z; $b
setoption UnixFromLine (0x91).=From $g $d
setoption OperatorChars (0x92).=.:%@!^/[]+
setoption MaxHeadersLength (0xaa).=32768
drop_privileges(0): Real[UG]id=0:3, RunAs[UG]id=0:0
getauthinfo: root@localhost

============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
(short domain name) $w = skregi25
(canonical domain name) $j = $w.agr.gc.ca
(subdomain name) $m = agr.gc.ca
(node name) $k = skregi25
========================================================

map_rewrite(@), av = (nullv)
map_rewrite => @
getla: 11
drop_privileges(0): Real[UG]id=0:3, RunAs[UG]id=0:0
map_rewrite(@), av = (nullv)
map_rewrite => @
orderq:
grow_wlist: WorkListSize=0
grow_wlist: WorkListSize now 1000

====finis: stat 0 e_id=NOQUEUE e_flags=1

[Ivan Ferreira]

What do you see in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log when you run sendmail -q??

[Coolmar]

I just deleted the messages and mail seems to be going through. Thanks