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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!iglou!tsn From: Robert Kesten <tsn@iglou.com> Subject: Re: killing mail in mailq In-Reply-To: <199602181722.RAA08520@prds-grn> X-Sender: tsn@iglou X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iglou Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960219105550.1412A-100000@iglou> Sender: news@iglou.com (News Administrator) Organization: IgLou Internet Services (1-800-436-4456) References: <199602181722.RAA08520@prds-grn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 15:57:10 GMT Lines: 33 On Sun, 18 Feb 1996, Thomas D.G. Sandford wrote: > In article <DMxspu.M3q@iglou.com> you wrote: > : How do you stop mail that is already queued from being sent? > : I've got about 5400 e-mails in mailq that I want to stop > : delivery on. > > : (by the time this gets posted and anyone responds it will > : probably be too late, but at least I'll know for next time.) > > : I'm pretty new (obviously) at running freebsd. I've looked > : at the man pages for mailq, majordomo, and sendmail and > : can't find a way to kill the queue. > > (Don't try this at home kiddies) > > su > cd /var/spool/mqueue > rm * > Thanks, this worked just fine. > This will remove *all* the mail in your mail queue. You can be more > specific my finding the id's of the items you want to remove and just > removing the df????? and qf????? corresponding to those numbers. > > Disclaimer: This advice is supplied in good faith, but I can take no > responsibility if it does something disastrous on your machine. Robert Kesten TSN Webmaster