sendmail: clientmqueue directory storing massive messages, not
being cleared
Chris Byrnes
chris at JEAH.net
Thu Jun 5 21:11:13 PDT 2003
I just got done sending 42,000 e-mail messages that were rotting away in
/var/spool/clientmqueue. I figured out the command to do so was
"sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m".
I never even knew that directory existed. I thought everything queued was
kept in /var/spool/mqueue (which, I might add is being taken care of on a
regular basis.. just seems the problem lies in the /var/spool/clientmqueue
directory). Is this a new thing that I'm stupidly unaware of?
Can you please explain the difference between /var/spool/clientmqueue and
/var/spool/mqueue and why one seems to be taken care of regularly, but the
other had 42,000 unsent messages? When I start sendmail, I've always just
run "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q60m -h10 -R full". Do I need to do something
differently?
Please cc: as I am not subscribed. Thank you in advance for your help.
Chris
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