How to Move the Mail Queue

1. Become root on the mail host.

2. Type /etc/init.d/sendmail stop and press Return.

   This kills the old sendmail daemon to keep it from trying to process the old queue directory.

3. Type cd /var/spool and press Return.

4. Type mv mqueue omqueue; mkdir mqueue and press Return.

   This moves the directory, mqueue, and all its contents to the omqueue directory and then creates a new empty Rmqueue directory.

5. Type chmod 755 mqueue; chown daemon.daemon mqueue and press Return.

   These commands set the permissions of the directory to read/write/execute by owner, and read/execute by group and others; these commands also set the owner and group to daemon.

6. Type /etc/init.d/sendmail start and press Return.

   This starts a new sendmail daemon.