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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing mail from mailq
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:19:35 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Blake Swensen 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?
> 
> Blake

Root can delete any file. (A bit drastic, but IMHO appropriate for
someone who's spamming your mail queue.)
-- 
Ken

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