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Managing sendmail Services in Oracle® Solaris 11.3

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Updated: April 2020
 
 

Task Map for Administering the Queue Directories

The following table describes the procedures for administering the mail queue.

Task
Description
For Instructions
Displaying the contents of the mail queue, /var/spool/mqueue
Displays the number of messages in the queue and the speed at which messages are being cleared from the queue.
Forcing mail queue processing for the mail queue, /var/spool/mqueue
Processes messages to a system that was previously unable to receive messages.
Running a subset of the mail queue, /var/spool/mqueue
Forces a substring of an address, such as a host name, to be processed. Also, use this procedure to force a particular message out of the queue.
Moving the mail queue, /var/spool/mqueue
Moves the mail queue.
Running the old mail queue, /var/spool/omqueue
Runs an old mail queue.