sendmail how to send specific queued mail

[Adam Noble]

Hi all,

Had a performance problem on our server which meant that mail has been queuing for 2 days without anyone noticing (don't ask) anyway I now have around 1200 mails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue. Now I'm well aware I can use sendmail -q to reprocess the queue and it should be doing this automatically I believe every few hours. I do however urgently need to print certain requests as a priority. I am aware which prints they are in /var/spool/mqueue however i am unsure on the syntax to resend them immediately if possible.

Cheers

[Jeeshan]

you can empty the mail queues by applying command

#sendmail -v -q

[Adam Noble]

yes well aware as per my mail. However the problem is I want to send individual mails

[Jeeshan · Accepted solution]

#sendmail -qR cwinters.com -v

To only process entries in the queue with a recipient having 'cwinters.com' in it. You can also use -qS to match on the sender and -qI to match on the queue ID.

[Kapil Jha]

check this one would help you.
http://www.ilkda.com/sendmail/Queue_Tips.htm
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You can also limit the jobs to those with a particular queue identifier, recipient, sender, or queue group using one of the queue modifiers. For example, "-qRberkeley" restricts the queue run to jobs that have the string "berkeley" somewhere in one of the recipient addresses. Similarly, "-qSstring" limits the run to particular senders, "-qIstring" limits it to particular queue identifiers, and "-qGstring" limits it to a particular queue group. The named queue group will be run even if it is set to have 0 runners.
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Hope this help,
BR,
Kapil