07-09-2014
Mail Queue refilling
Hello
I'm using Cent OS6 and a webmin interface
I've had an issue where over 1 million emails were queued in the sendmail mail queue. I found a thread on here from 2002 explaining how to delete them all and it worked great.
Thanks Perderabu
unix-for-dummies-questions-and-answers / 6255-clearing-mail-queue
However, once I restart sendmail there are more emails entering the mail queue.
Will these new emails be bounce backs?
Can I stop them from re-entering as I want to resend an email that was affected by the queue issue?
I'm thinking that the server has been hacked to get so many email in the original queue so I changed the password.
Thanks
A Big Noob
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mailq(1) General Commands Manual mailq(1)
NAME
mailq - Displays the contents of the mail queue
SYNOPSIS
mailq [-v]
DESCRIPTION
The mailq command displays a list of messages in the mail queue. The mailq command is the same as the sendmail command with the -bp
option; see sendmail for more information.
EXAMPLES
The mailq command lists the mail queue as shown in the following example: Mail Queue (1 request) --QID--- -Size- ---Q-
Time------- --Sender/Recipient--- AA002508 3 Thu Dec 17 10:01 root The mailq -v command lists the mail queue as shown in the
following example: Mail Queue (1 request) --QID--- -Size- -Priority- ---Q-Time---- -Sender/Recipient- AA002508
3 1005 Dec 17 10:01 root
(Output might be formatted differently on your system.)
The fields have the following meaning: Contains the message queue ID of the message. Contains the number of bytes in the body of
the message (header information not included). Contains the priority of the message. Contains the date that the message entered
the queue. Contains the user ID of the sender (first), and then the user ID of the receiver of the message. In this example, a
message also indicates the status of the message.
FILES
Contains the log file and temporary files associated with the messages in the mail queue.
SEE ALSO
Commands: sendmail(8)
mailq(1)