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Subject: Re: Mailqueue clean
From: Russ Allbery <rra @ stanford . edu>
Date: 26 Dec 1997 00:20:10 -0800
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In-reply-to: Remy FAURES's message of Wed, 24 Dec 1997 17:12:38 -0500
References: <199712242323.SAA15015@fourier.amb-wash.fr>

Remy FAURES <rfaures@amb-wash.fr> writes:

> does anybody has a shell script to clean the mailqueue periodically ?

> Is it dangerous to manually clean the mailqueue, by deleting all files
> in the queue directory.  Can I safely (for the system stability) clean
> the queue (manually or with a script) once a week for exemple, to remove
> all defered messages ?

Why do you need to clean your mail queue?  sendmail does that itself after
it retries the deferred messages for X number of days (as defined in your
sendmail.cf file).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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