> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Edwin Humphries > Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] Flooded mail queue > > WE have a sendmail installation that is trying to process a queue of > some 1.8 million emails - mostly, as far as I can tell, double > bounce, virus laden stuff.
Ouch :-) > Of course, sendmail is going into overload, and slowing the machine > down enormously, and given that the emails are double-bounce, to no > avail. But i tried to delete the queue with "rm *" in > /var/spool/mqueue, but got "Argument list too long". > > Can I just delete the mqueue directory? If so, will sendmail re- > create it on the fly, or do I need to manually re-create it? Try this... Locate the offending spammer IP addresses then run... find . -name 'qf*' -type f |xargs grep -l $ip |sed s/qf/df/g |xargs rm find . -name 'qf*' -type f |xargs grep -l $ip |xargs rm That should clean your queue while leaving those legitimate messages that are just waiting for delivery. > Edwin Humphries, > Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.ironstone.com.au > Phone: 02 4233 2285 > Fax: 02 4233 2299 > Mobile: 0419 233 051 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html --- Ben Lisle Pacific Internet | Engineer, IT Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
