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- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Path: sparky!uunet!uaisun4!mrl
- From: mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig)
- Subject: Care and feeding of sendmail's mail queue directory
- Message-ID: <MRL.92Dec30081036@hp.uai.com>
- Sender: news@uai.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: hp.uai.com
- Organization: /etc/news/organization
- Date: 30 Dec 92 08:10:36
- Lines: 20
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- Okay, I'm not _that_ experienced with sendmail, but I've never had
- this happen before:
-
- mark's favorite wierd prompt> ls -l /usr/spool/mqueue
- total 159
- -rw------- 1 root 56992 Dec 9 15:11 dfAA20922
- -rw------- 1 root 39632 Dec 9 15:11 dfAA20926
- -rw------- 1 root 25310 Dec 9 15:11 dfAA20929
- -rw------- 1 root 39632 Dec 9 15:11 dfAA20930
- mark's favorite wierd prompt>
-
- The ``mailq'' command didn't acknowledge their existence. I manually
- removed them, and then started wondering why I had to do that.
- Perhaps I should have a cron job?
-
- For version information, I'll relay what connecting to our daemon yields:
-
- 220 uai.com 5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 Sendmail is ready at Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:07:30 -0800
-
- Thanks in advance for any tips, pointers, etc.$$
-