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Qmail, flushing the queue

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First you need to identify the qmail-send process by pid:

server# ps ax | grep qmail-send
  632 con- I      0:02.82 qmail-send

Then use the kill command to send that pid the ALRM signal.

server# kill -ALRM 632

Qmail will now begin attempting to deliver anything in its queue, regardless of whether it's scheduled to retry it yet or not. NOTE: do not substitute the killall command; under FreeBSD (as of 4.0-6.1) the killall command does not appear to actually pass the ALRM signal; it just passes the default TERM signal and kills the process entirely. Not what you're looking for.

See also: Qmail, clearing the queue, Qmail, monitoring the queue

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