How do I permanently delete e-mail messages in the sendmail queue and keep them from coming back?
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I have a pretty annoying problem here. I have been testing an application and have created some test e-mails to bogus e-mail addresses (not to mention that my server isn't really set up to send e-mail anyway). Of course, sendmail is not able to send these messages and they have been getting stuck in the sendmail queue. I want to manually delete the messages that have been building up in the queue instead of waiting the 5 days that sendmail usually takes to stop retrying.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and /var/spool/mqueue/ is the directory in which every how-to I have read says the e-mails that are queued up are kept. When I delete the files in this directory, sendmail stops trying to process the e-mails until what appears to be a cron script runs and re-populates this directory with the messages I don't want sent. Here are some lines from my syslog:
Jun 2 17:35:19 sajo-laptop sm-mta[9367]: o530SlbK009365: to=, ctladdr= (33/33), delay=00:06:27, xdelay=00:06:22, mailer=esmtp, pri=120418, relay=e.mx.mail.yahoo.com. [67.195.168.230], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with e.mx.mail.yahoo.com. Jun 2 17:35:48 sajo-laptop sm-mta[9149]: o4VHn3cw003597: to=, ctladdr= (33/33), delay=2+06:46:45, xdelay=00:34:12, mailer=esmtp, pri=3540649, relay=mx2.hotmail.com. [65.54.188.94], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with mx2.hotmail.com. Jun 2 17:39:02 sajo-laptop CRON[9510]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm) Jun 2 17:39:43 sajo-laptop sm-mta[9372]: o52LHK4s007585: to=, ctladdr= (33/33), delay=03:22:18, xdelay=00:06:28, mailer=esmtp, pri=1470404, relay=c.mx.mail.yahoo.com. [206.190.54.127], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with c.mx.mail.yahoo.com. Jun 2 17:39:50 sajo-laptop sm-mta[9149]: o51I8ieV004377: to=, ctladdr= (33/33), delay=1+06:31:06, xdelay=00:03:57, mailer=esmtp, pri=6601668, relay=alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. [74.125.79.114], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. Jun 2 17:40:01 sajo-laptop CRON[9523]: (smmsp) CMD (test -x /etc/init.d/sendmail && /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail cron-msp)
Does anyone know how I can get rid of these messages permanently? As a side note, I'd also like to know if there is a way to set up sendmail to "fake" sending e-mail. Is there?
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