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Re: [SLUG] SendMail Queue Flush

To: "Linux Sydney (E-mail)" <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] SendMail Queue Flush
From: Chuck Dale <bug@nospam.aphid.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:48:10 +1000
In-Reply-To: <005101bfd9ae$be070050$6437a8c0@nospam.dva.net.au>; from peterm@nospam.dva.net.au on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:25:11PM +1000
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Wrote Peter McCarthy on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:25:11PM +1000:
> Howdy all
> 
> I have an older version of sendmail (RH 4.2) which I use in the office for our
> email gateway (yes I know I will upgrade soon)
> But for now I have a couple of fellows that thought it would be fun to email
> everyone in there address book some fun pictures of nude girls etc..
> How do I flush the sendmail queue to get rid of these messages as they are
> choking our dialup modem link to the net.

I don't think this is the official way to do it but it works for me:

type mailq to get the queue IDs, then delete the appropriate files from
/var/spool/mqueue (may be just /var/mqueue or something completely
different). Each mail has two files, a control file and the queue file.
You need to delete both.

Chuck
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