[Wylug-help] How to release mail from the mailq

[Jim Jackson]

It depends what your mail program is. If it is sendmail then do

   /usr/sbin/sendmail -v -q

which shows you whats happenning. If you don't want to see the details
then

  /usr/sbin/sendmail -q

For exim its

  /usr/sbin/exim -q

add the -v flag for more details.

You should have a demon running to run the mailq periodically, or a cron
entry to do a regular mailq run.

Jim

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, John Craven wrote:

> My mail queue gets bigger and bigger. I can see that most of the mail should be deliverable but it never gets delivered.
> Does anybody know how to 'activate' the mailq to process the mail ???
>
> Thanks,
>
> John C
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