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From: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing mail from mailq
Date: 19 Oct 1996 03:55:05 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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Blake Swensen (blake@pbgi.com) wrote:

: I have a user who's mailing list is pretty full of bogus names and it 
: fills up my sendmail queue.  Is there a way that I can remove mail from 
: the queue?

: Blake

You can (as root) delete mail from the queue in the same way you
delete any other file.  The queue resides in /var/spool/mqueue.

Annelise