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== How To Flush All Email Messages From The Sendmail Queue == | == How To Flush Out All Email Messages From The Sendmail Queue == | ||
Sometimes email messages can be <u>queued</u> <u>up</u> with the Mail Transport Agent: "'''sendmail'''". The following command line can be used to <u>manually</u> try to immediately flush out <u>'''All'''</u> emails queued up by "'''sendmail'''". Even though a "'''sendmail'''" service may be running, this command is <u>'''Ok'''</u> to use, it will only run once and then terminate. | Sometimes email messages can be <u>queued</u> <u>up</u> with the Mail Transport Agent: "'''sendmail'''". The following command line can be used to <u>manually</u> try to immediately flush out <u>'''All'''</u> emails queued up by "'''sendmail'''". Even though a "'''sendmail'''" service may be running, this command is <u>'''Ok'''</u> to use, it will only run once and then terminate. | ||
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<div class="screenTitle">Try To Flush The Entire "''sendmail''" Queue:</div> | <div class="screenTitle">Try To Flush Out The Entire "''sendmail''" Queue:</div> | ||
<div class="userInput"><span class="prompt">[root@probe-222 root]# </span>/usr/local/sbin/sendmail -q -v</div> | <div class="userInput"><span class="prompt">[root@probe-222 root]# </span>/usr/local/sbin/sendmail -q -v</div> | ||
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== How To Flush A Specific Email Message From The Sendmail Queue == | == How To Flush A Specific Email Message From The Sendmail Queue == | ||
Revision as of 19:00, 29 March 2007
How To Flush Out All Email Messages From The Sendmail Queue
Sometimes email messages can be queued up with the Mail Transport Agent: "sendmail". The following command line can be used to manually try to immediately flush out All emails queued up by "sendmail". Even though a "sendmail" service may be running, this command is Ok to use, it will only run once and then terminate.
Try To Flush Out The Entire "sendmail" Queue:
[root@probe-222 root]# /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -q -v
How To Flush A Specific Email Message From The Sendmail Queue
"sendmail" can be told to only flush certain emails from the "queue" with an additional argument to "-q". One can flush email messages that match a specific recipient's address:
Try To Flush A Specific "sendmail" Queued Email Message:
[root@probe-222 root]# /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -qR "securecomputing.com" -v
All queued email messages with a recipient address that matches: "securecomputing.com" will be flushed out. You can also use "-qS" to match on the "sender" and "-qI" to match on the "queue ID".
