Any ideas on how to edit the mail queue?

Any ideas on how to edit the mail queue?

[Victor Tsaran]

Hello, list!
Does anyone know if there is a way to intelligently edit the mail queue in /var/spool/mqueue?
I was looking for such tools, but cannot find any. Say, I have several
messages that have wrong addresses. Sendmail keeps on sending them
over and over again. How can I get rid o those messages without using
wild methods like deleting?
Best,
Victor

Re: Any ideas on how to edit the mail queue?

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

In theory at least, you should be able to edit the mail queue with your
mail transport agent.  I know I can kill or freeze queued messages in exim
by issuing exim with command line parameters.  Maybe look at sendmail's
options?

Geoff.

Re: Any ideas on how to edit the mail queue?

[Victor Tsaran]

Hello, Geoff!
I did look at Sendmail's command line parameters, but t=nothing to
operate on a mail queue (at least I can't find anything), just
printing the queue is allowed.
Best,
Vic

Geoff Shang writes:
 > Hi:
 > 
 > In theory at least, you should be able to edit the mail queue with your
 > mail transport agent.  I know I can kill or freeze queued messages in exim
 > by issuing exim with command line parameters.  Maybe look at sendmail's
 > options?
 > 
 > Geoff.
 > 
 > 
 > 
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Re: Any ideas on how to edit the mail queue?

[John Covici]

You are going to be stuck with either waiting for the messages to time
out or deleting them by hand from the queue.

You might change the timeout temporarily from 5 days to 1 day and so
they will all go away.

Have fun.

Victor Tsaran <tsar@sylaba.poznan.pl> writes:

> Hello, Geoff!
> I did look at Sendmail's command line parameters, but t=nothing to
> operate on a mail queue (at least I can't find anything), just
> printing the queue is allowed.
> Best,
> Vic
> 
> Geoff Shang writes:
>  > Hi:
>  > 
>  > In theory at least, you should be able to edit the mail queue with your
>  > mail transport agent.  I know I can kill or freeze queued messages in exim
>  > by issuing exim with command line parameters.  Maybe look at sendmail's
>  > options?
>  > 
>  > Geoff.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
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