Forcing processing of mails in incomming queue

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> Um, exactly what effect are you looking for there Alex? If it's in
> that queue, doesn't it stay there until MS is well and truly done with
> it (Just out of curiosity, since I don't use Sendmail:-)....? That's
> what I'd expect anyway...
>
> So... Maiking MailScanner work as well as possible would be the sole
> "true solution" there, now wouldn't you agree?
>
> Cheers

True. I was just answering the question. I would guess a situation where 
this would be needed would be one where, for some reason (say, a 
corrupted /etc/MailScanner directory, broken perl, etc.) would require 
you to free the incoming queue (at least until you can "fix" whatever's 
wrong with MailScanner). Of course, this would have to be done after 
stopping (and/or killing) any running MailScanner processes.

I think I've had this happen once or twice. After the broken MailScanner 
install was fixed, everything worked normally. In the meantime I would 
either sendmail -q -v -O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in and run 
plain old sendmail until MailScanner was fixed, and then stop sendmail 
and run MailScanner.