Subject: Re: Removing Mail Request w/out Control file (fwd)
To: Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 <bbogart@acs.ryerson.ca>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/09/2000 21:18:54
>I've had one mail request sitting in the queue for over a month now.
>mailq returns nothing but I keep getting the following daily output:
>
>
>mail:
> Mail Queue (1 request)
>--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
>DAA06056* (no control file)
>
>
>How do I remove this request? (I was hoping it would time out after a
>well and get deleted by sendmail but not such luck)
looks like it got "lost". i'd do this:
cd /var/spool/mqueue
mv *DAA06056 ..
cd ..
then examine the files called *DAA06056 (presumably you have a file
called qfDAA06056 and another called xfDAA06056). if you don't need
them, then rm them.
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