Tony D'Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi. I was doing some maintenance on our server running qmail and noticed
> when i did "qmail-qread", there were over 4000 messages in the queue all
> looked like this except for the odd one:
> 26 Mar 1999 11:30:00 GMT #8947 425 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Since this server is only running moderated mailing lists, I was curious
> as to who/what is sending these messages.
Probably cron. qmail-inject uses that envelope sender under some
circumstances when mail is sent fron cron; I'm not entirely sure why it
happens (although I'm sure it's documented somewhere and someone will
follow up with the full explanation), but it's generally harmless. My
guess is it's the combination of mail being sent from root and the lack of
any meaningful environment (such as USER or LOGNAME) being set.
> Also if they are not important, how do i clean these messages out of the
> queue ?
Fix whatever's preventing delivery of mail to root.
> How can i view what is in those messages ?
Fixing root's mailbox is the simplest way. You could also go into
/var/qmail/queue/mess and read them.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
