Reprocessing sendmail failed messages

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Fri Mar 31 19:51:10 UTC 2006


Kris Anderson writes:

>  Found this with google.
>  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-June/049850.html
>  
>  A Dr Matthew had this answer (read full text to see what's up but
>  here's a snippet)
>  
>  If you end up with a load of messages stuck in
>  /var/spool/clientmqueue, you've got a similar problem with not
>  running a MSP queue daemon.  The case is exactly analogous,
>  except that the sendmail flags are in
>  /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid and should read:
>  
>      /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m
>  
>  and you need to set 'sendmail_msp_queue_flags' in /etc/rc.conf to
>  override them.

	Or:
	1) cd /etc/mail
	2) make stop
	3) make start
	4) ps -ax | grep sendm    and you should see something like:

 1153  ??  Ss     0:14.88 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
 1156  ??  IWs    0:00.00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00 for /var/spool/client
15854  p6  S+     0:00.01 grep sendm


	This method uses the same scripts invoked at boot, and will
automatically read the various "sendmail_" variables out of rc.conf.


			Robert Huff




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