[Gllug] Sendmail queue

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Wed Feb 2 10:16:56 UTC 2005


And verily, didst Benedikt Heinen announce to the hordes:
> 
> >> 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?
> > 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.
> 
> I think there also is an alias for it; runq.

Hmmm, not seen that one...
there is another alias, mailq which can be useful for examining the queue
for oversized spammy crud that can be deleted from the queue before sending.
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