Mailq clean up???

[craig]

I have old mail stuck in the mailq. How do I get flush it through or delete it???

Craig

[dkelly]

The command to run is

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sendmail -v -q

The -v is optional but it allows you to see if the message is flushed successfully.

Cheers

Dave

[craig]

how do I delete bunk emails in the "mailq"

[Valerion]

You can go to /var/spool/mqueue, then delete the files qf<ID>, df<ID> and xf<ID> where <ID> is the ID listed in mailq.