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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!wizard.pn.com!dns.crocker.com!calweb!info.infosite.com!not-for-mail From: cslye@infosite.com (Cameron Slye) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: killing mail in mailq Date: 19 Feb 1996 04:45:17 GMT Organization: Infosite Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4g8v8t$7f@news.calweb.com> References: <DMxspu.M3q@iglou.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: infosite.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Robert Kesten (tsn@iglou.iglou.com) wrote: : How do you stop mail that is already queued from being sent? : I've got about 5400 e-mails in mailq that I want to stop : delivery on. You want them all stopped ? Kill off all sendmails, goto /var/spool/mqueue, and type rm * That will kill everything waiting to be sent out, if you want to kill off just things from a single user <grin, I hate this> you need to delete both files for the message. I don't have the script handy to grep all the outgoing mail and purge anything that matches. Cameron Slye cslye@infosite.com