/var/spool/mqueue not flushing

[Peter Peters]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:13:30 -0600, you wrote:

>> In that case, do you have "Delivery Method = batch" ?
>> It's very hard to diagnose problems of this sort remotely (without access),
>> there are all sorts of things that could be wrong, causing problems like
>> this :(
>
>Ah.  It helps once I read thru the list archives to get a better
>explanation of the delivery methods.  Reading the info in the config, I
>went with 'queue' orignally as it sounded more suited to my environment.
>Not having a runner around to flush that queue, Sendmail obviously
>didn't have a clue it needed to do anything.  Problem solved.

I would suggest have Sendmail do a queuerun occasionally. When the first
attempt failes with a temporary error the message is placed in the queue
and without queuerun it will stay in there infinite.

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