Sendmail queue clearing

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, David Payne wrote:

> We had to shut off sendmail on our Nagios server due to a number of 
> changes we were making that would artificially alert.  However, the 
> sendmail service was not restarted till the next week.  Ive checked the 
> qmail and /var/spool/mqueue and they both say 0 messages....but if I 
> start the sendmail process...we get flooded by sms messages...can anyone 
> help me figure out how to clear this up?
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>

If you are running a newer sendmail - the message submission queue is 
different - "mailq -Ac" for the the queue status in 
"/var/spool/clientmqueue"

-sg


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