another sendmail / email issue

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 26 May 2005 12:57 pm, Howard wrote:
> I forgot to mention that when I issue the command:  mailq, the
> response is /var/spool/mqueue is empty.  But, if I list the
> contents there are 466 files listed.
There are generally 3 types of files in the mail queue (as I recall).
1. The queue file. (eg. 010AE18381C.qf). There is 1 per message. This 
generally has information about where the message is going.
2. The data file. (eg. 010AE18381C.df). This is the body of the email 
message. 
3. There is a third type of file, I forget the suffix, but it sometimes 
exists when an email is being processed. 

First, shut off the sendmail daemon. 
You should only have .df and .qf files and no file should be older than 5 
days. In the past, I would simply just remove any old files. I used to find 
a number of .df files without a corresponding .qf. 
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