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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I flush the mail queue? Date: 19 Jul 1997 05:33:27 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5qpjj7$kn2$3@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <33CEA026.243C@ed.atl.sita.int> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961126] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44652 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc vijay konkimalla <vijayk@ed.atl.sita.int> wrote: > hi, > I am using 2.2-97.....-RELENG version and use ppp (AT&T Worldnet) to > connect to Internet. > I have a mail job pending in the mailq with deferred host lookup. > Could someone let me know how to flush the job? Is there one like > lprm? > would appreciate your comments/criticism. > --vijay > (vijayk@ed.atl.sita.int) You can use mailq to look at the mail queue; note the number of the pending mail job. You can try sendmail -q to make it try again right away. Probably after five days it will quit trying and send you a message that the mail could not be delivered. If you want to get rid of it, what I've always done is (as root go to /var/spool/mqueue and delete both files for the message, the one beginning with df (the data file) and the one beginning with qf. Annelise