[Gllug] Sendmail queue

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Wed Feb 2 10:15:50 UTC 2005


And verily, didst John Edwards announce to the hordes:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:58:55AM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > Due a temporary breakdown in my mail server yesterday I have a long
> > queue of deferred messages. How can I force sendmail to attempt to
> > resend them now everything appears to be up and running again?
> > -- 
> > Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk>
> 
> It's been a long time since I've had to use sendmail, but I 
> think "sendmail -q" will force the redelivery of all queued 
> email. Check the manpages first of course.

sendmail -q -v is preferable I think
Then you can see each one going, remember you need to be root to do this.
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