Re: [SLUG] How to clear sendmail unsent items

[James Gray <james_gray@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:47 am, Ron Daniel wrote:
> We have sendmail turned off at present, but we have an application which
> has been creating mail to be sent via sendmail.
>
> Could someone please tell me how to look at and manage (read DELETE) the
> unsent items ?
>
> Regards
> Ron Daniel

Hmmm, why not something like this:
mailq # take note of interesting message ID's
cd /var/spool/mqueue
less [dq]<mess_id>
rm [dq]<mess_id>

rinse and repeat.

It's ugly, but it works.  I'm sure there's something out there that would do 
what your after in a nice ncurses interface or something.

Cheers,

James