Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

Steve Bertrand iaccounts at ibctech.ca
Thu Jun 17 11:44:30 PDT 2004


> What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue?  I
> don't
> really understand what that particular queue is for.

I believe the q is for messages that have failed, but have not yet
expired...don't quote me though.

sb

>
> This client is not having any problems getting/sending mail, and the mailq
> command only shows one mail in the queue, but I have 3867 files in this
> directory.
>
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> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
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