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System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

How to Run the Old Mail Queue, /var/spool/omqueue

To run an old mail queue, follow these instructions.

  1. Become root or assume an equivalent role.

    For information about roles, refer to “Using Privileged Applications” in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. Run the old mail queue.


    # /usr/lib/sendmail -oQ/var/spool/omqueue -q

    The -oQ flag specifies an alternate queue directory. The -q flag says to run every job in the queue. Use the -v flag if you are displaying the verbose output on the screen.

  3. Remove the empty directory.


    # rmdir /var/spool/omqueue