SBDavid
Jul 6th, 2009
Jul 6th, 2009
Flush mail queue in sendmail
Flush mail queue in sendmail
To flush the mail queue manually in sendmail servers, use
$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -v
Better way
Make a backup of the existing queue directory.
$ mv mqueue mqueue.bak
Create the ‘mqueue’ directory with the same permissions and ownership. Then, type in
$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -v -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.bak
You can use the same command to flush any sendmail queue as some servers have multiple queue setup like mqueue, mqueue.site, clientmqueue, q1, q2 etc.
