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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing mail from mailq
Date: 19 Oct 1996 00:20:26 GMT
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Blake Swensen <blake@pbgi.com> wrote:

> I have a user who's mailing list is pretty full of bogus names and it 
> fills up my sendmail queue.  Is there a way that I can remove mail from 
> the queue?

rm(1)

Sorry, i don't know of any better solution...  Always wondered why
there ain't a mailrm(8).  Of course, it's a quarter-of-an-hour hack to
be written in Perl.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)