RE: deleting selected/filtered mails in sendmail queue
Hello Henk,
> Stop sendmail, cp -pr /var/spool/mqueue to say,
> /var/spool/omqueue, start sendmail again and do a couple of
> queueruns on that queue (be sure you remove the
> /var/spool/omqueue/.hoststat/ entries). Dequeue with
> 'sendmail -oQ/var/spool/omqueue -q -v' and after you're
> confident that most of the 'normal' e-mail is out grep the
> qf* files to dig out the .tw entries and throw away those
> {d,q}f* files. After that dequeue again 'till the queue is
> empty and you're done.
Sounds quite simple, I had done it that way before... way back :)
I just thought there *must* be a better solution.
Thanks
Erik
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