Topic: Flushing the queue

[Christo Pretorius]

Hi,

I'd like to know if there is a command to flush all the messages
in the queue awaiting to be SEND. It would be even nicer if you
know of a command to flush only certain messages in the queue.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[Carl Enset]

From the Qmail FAQ (in /var/qmail/doc/FAQ)

7.2. How do I manually run the queue? I'd like qmail to try delivering all the remote messages right now.

Answer: Give the qmail-send process an ALRM.
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    At the command prompt logged in as root, type:

    killall -ALRM qmail-send
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You may want to run qmail-tcpok first, to guarantee that qmail-remote will try all addresses. Normally, if an address fails repeatedly, qmail-remote leaves it alone for an hour.

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If you want to know the number of messages in the queue at the command prompt logged in as root, type:

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat