In my experience and based on other input from the list the best way to
eliminate messages from the queue is with the qmHandle script on the
qmail website (I don't think it's listed on the site with that name).
Works well for me.
- Eric
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>
> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 12:04:25 +0200 (EET) , dd writes:
> > i know that deleting a mail from the queue is not recommended (i don't
> > know why though) but i had to delete all the 29 mails waiting to be
>
> Because qmail-send maintains its own information
> about the contents of the queue, independent of what
> is on disk. If the two get out of sync, qmail-send
> will not be happy.
>
> > transferred (qmail-qstat said there were 29). i ran qmail-clean but had to
> > hit CTRL+C when there was no responce from it after ca 1min. qmail-qstat
> > said there were still 29 mails in the queue. i had thought it should have
> > removed some at least. i killed qmail-send and tried running qmail-clean
> > again but nth changed.
>
> qmail-clean is used internally be qmail-send.
>
> If you really need to delete messages from the queue,
> kill qmail-send. When it's exited, look through
> the output of qmail-qread for the message numbers
> you want. Then delete everything corresponding to
> those message numbers:
>
> {local,remote,info,mess}/<msgnum%23>/<msgnum>
>
> qmail-qread will not tell you about stuff in todo/
>
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