sendmail: /var/spool/clientmqueue

[Rad Rioveros]

Gurus,

We want to turnoff sendmail (daemon)on our linux boxes (RHEL) but sending email must be still working. After turning off, mails being sent got stucked in /var/spool/clientmqueue.

I tried to run ('got from googling the net):
/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q

but got this error:

Running /var/spool/clientmqueue/k9C5dZQN001605 (sequence 1 of 1)
user@domain.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
user@domain.com... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

How can I flush mails from /var/spool/clientmqueue without starting sendmail?

(sendmail version: 8.12.11)

TIA,
r@d

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

You have to rename/remove the /etc/mail/submit.cf.

[Rad Rioveros]

Thanks ;)

[Ivan Ferreira]

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Have a nice day.

[Steven E. Protter]

shalom,

undeliverable mail first goes to /var/spool/mqueue

After a period of time defined, usually 4 hours it goes to /var/spool/clientmailque

Its the same mail and can sit there for 5 days depending on your sendmail.cf configuration.

rm -f * in the directory wil flush the mail.

SEP

[Rad Rioveros]

Thanks a lot!