[Gllug] Sendmail queue

Robert P. McKenzie rmckenzi at rpmdp.com
Wed Feb 2 10:24:06 UTC 2005


Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> 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.

Or have your own account set as a trusted user (/etc/mail/trusted-users)

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