quarantine as raw mail queue file

[Julian Field]

And if you want to trigger an immediate queue run, do a
         sendmail -q
and if you give it "-qI" (that is a capital i) followed immediately by some
part of the queue id (the rest of the filename after the qf or df), it will
just attempt to deliver messages whose queue ids contain the part you gave it.

So if you had df13579ABCD642 and the corresponding qf file, you could do
         sendmail -qIABCD
to deliver this message.

At 17:11 26/09/2003, you wrote:
>Thanks a lot!!!!  I failed to copy the qf* file, so it works now.
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
> > Sendmail's queue files occur in pairs - one is called qf followed by a
>bunch
> > of letters & numbers, the other is called df followed by the same letters
>&
> > numbers.
> >
> > You should be able to copy the two qf/df files into your outgoing queue
> > directory and they will then get delivered the next time the queue runner
> > gets processed.
> >
> > If this does not appear to happening for you:
> >
> > 1. Are you copying both the qf and df files (with matching remainders of
>the
> > names)?
> >
> > 2. Are you sure you're copying them to the correct directory - the one
>your
> > outgoing sendmail process is delivering mail from (this is the directory
> > MailScanner puts mail into once it's finished processing it)?
> >
> > 3. How often is your delivery sendmail process checking the queue (this is
> > the -q parameter on the sendmail command line; a common one is -q15m
>meaning
> > process the queue every 15 minutes)?
> >
> > 4. Are you waiting that amount of time for the mail to be discovered and
> > processed?
> >
> > Hope these suggestions point you in a helpful direction,
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antony.
> >
> > --
> >
> > If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it,
> > we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

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