[olug] sendmail help again (ugh)

Noel Leistad noel at metc.net
Tue Mar 11 19:29:44 UTC 2008


Ryan Stille wrote:
> Obi-Wan wrote:
>>> I have some (around 30) messages that are stuck in my sendmail queue on 
>>> server1.  These are messages to be delivered to another in house mail 
>>> server, server2.  I have control over both servers.  No matter what I do 
>>> I can't flush them out.
>>>     
>> If you run:   /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -Ac
>> as root on server1, what shows up in the mail logs?
>>
>>   
> 
> Nothing.  Same messages are still in the queue when I checked a few 
> minutes later, too.
> 
> ????
> 
> -Ryan
> 

When I get mail stuck, or hung up during a server transition, I usually 
need to re queue. Granted, not exactly the same, but something you could 
try?? maybe on a single message as a test??

postfix has a postsuper -r <msgid> command, assume sendmail has 
something equiv



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