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Unable to clear sendmail mqueue-client
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drwxr-xr-x 2 smmsp smmsp 4.0K May 6 23:31 mqueue
drwxrws--- 2 smmsp smmsp 29M May 8 10:40 mqueue-client
As you can see mqueue-client is filled with 29 megabytes of unsent mail. This seems to be likely from an internal function sending mail to localhost which is failing.
I've tried numerous attempts to clear the queue but none have succeeded. The result is a process using up significant CPU resources:
16287 smmsp 20 0 50212 44m 2416 R 85 4.4 965:35.45 sendmail-msp
I've tried killing the process, stopping the sendmail service, deleting the contents of the mqueue-client and even switching to the smmsp user. But none have worked. rm hangs when trying to remove the mail.
How can I go about emptying this queue?
Once I've done this I'll move everything over to Postfix.
email bash unix email-server sendmail
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drwxr-xr-x 2 smmsp smmsp 4.0K May 6 23:31 mqueue
drwxrws--- 2 smmsp smmsp 29M May 8 10:40 mqueue-client
As you can see mqueue-client is filled with 29 megabytes of unsent mail. This seems to be likely from an internal function sending mail to localhost which is failing.
I've tried numerous attempts to clear the queue but none have succeeded. The result is a process using up significant CPU resources:
16287 smmsp 20 0 50212 44m 2416 R 85 4.4 965:35.45 sendmail-msp
I've tried killing the process, stopping the sendmail service, deleting the contents of the mqueue-client and even switching to the smmsp user. But none have worked. rm hangs when trying to remove the mail.
How can I go about emptying this queue?
Once I've done this I'll move everything over to Postfix.
email bash unix email-server sendmail
asked May 8 '14 at 9:44
BrodieBrodie
1056
bumped to the homepage by Community♦ 4 mins ago
This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed.
Logs, my friend, logs. Have you read them at all? Boldly enter/var/loglair and see what it holds.
– Janne Pikkarainen
May 8 '14 at 12:35
thanks @janne you helped me solve the problem, see my answer for more info
– Brodie
May 8 '14 at 19:30
Great! Have a nice weekend. :)
– Janne Pikkarainen
May 9 '14 at 9:41
To remove multiple files you can usefindcommand likefind /path/to/files/ -type f -name '*.txt' -exec rm {} ;
– sanjayparmar
Sep 18 '18 at 8:25
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drwxr-xr-x 2 smmsp smmsp 4.0K May 6 23:31 mqueue
drwxrws--- 2 smmsp smmsp 29M May 8 10:40 mqueue-client
As you can see mqueue-client is filled with 29 megabytes of unsent mail. This seems to be likely from an internal function sending mail to localhost which is failing.
I've tried numerous attempts to clear the queue but none have succeeded. The result is a process using up significant CPU resources:
16287 smmsp 20 0 50212 44m 2416 R 85 4.4 965:35.45 sendmail-msp
I've tried killing the process, stopping the sendmail service, deleting the contents of the mqueue-client and even switching to the smmsp user. But none have worked. rm hangs when trying to remove the mail.
How can I go about emptying this queue?
Once I've done this I'll move everything over to Postfix.
email bash unix email-server sendmail
asked May 8 '14 at 9:44
BrodieBrodie
1056
drwxr-xr-x 2 smmsp smmsp 4.0K May 6 23:31 mqueue
drwxrws--- 2 smmsp smmsp 29M May 8 10:40 mqueue-client
As you can see mqueue-client is filled with 29 megabytes of unsent mail. This seems to be likely from an internal function sending mail to localhost which is failing.
I've tried numerous attempts to clear the queue but none have succeeded. The result is a process using up significant CPU resources:
16287 smmsp 20 0 50212 44m 2416 R 85 4.4 965:35.45 sendmail-msp
I've tried killing the process, stopping the sendmail service, deleting the contents of the mqueue-client and even switching to the smmsp user. But none have worked. rm hangs when trying to remove the mail.
How can I go about emptying this queue?
Once I've done this I'll move everything over to Postfix.
email bash unix email-server sendmail
email bash unix email-server sendmail
asked May 8 '14 at 9:44
BrodieBrodie
1056
asked May 8 '14 at 9:44
BrodieBrodie
1056
asked May 8 '14 at 9:44
BrodieBrodie
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asked May 8 '14 at 9:44
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1056
asked May 8 '14 at 9:44
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Logs, my friend, logs. Have you read them at all? Boldly enter/var/loglair and see what it holds.
– Janne Pikkarainen
May 8 '14 at 12:35
thanks @janne you helped me solve the problem, see my answer for more info
– Brodie
May 8 '14 at 19:30
Great! Have a nice weekend. :)
– Janne Pikkarainen
May 9 '14 at 9:41
To remove multiple files you can usefindcommand likefind /path/to/files/ -type f -name '*.txt' -exec rm {} ;
– sanjayparmar
Sep 18 '18 at 8:25
add a comment |
Logs, my friend, logs. Have you read them at all? Boldly enter/var/loglair and see what it holds.
– Janne Pikkarainen
May 8 '14 at 12:35
thanks @janne you helped me solve the problem, see my answer for more info
– Brodie
May 8 '14 at 19:30
Great! Have a nice weekend. :)
– Janne Pikkarainen
May 9 '14 at 9:41
To remove multiple files you can usefindcommand likefind /path/to/files/ -type f -name '*.txt' -exec rm {} ;
– sanjayparmar
Sep 18 '18 at 8:25
Logs, my friend, logs. Have you read them at all? Boldly enter
/var/log lair and see what it holds.– Janne Pikkarainen
May 8 '14 at 12:35
Logs, my friend, logs. Have you read them at all? Boldly enter
/var/log lair and see what it holds.– Janne Pikkarainen
May 8 '14 at 12:35
thanks @janne you helped me solve the problem, see my answer for more info
– Brodie
May 8 '14 at 19:30
thanks @janne you helped me solve the problem, see my answer for more info
– Brodie
May 8 '14 at 19:30
Great! Have a nice weekend. :)
– Janne Pikkarainen
May 9 '14 at 9:41
Great! Have a nice weekend. :)
– Janne Pikkarainen
May 9 '14 at 9:41
To remove multiple files you can use
find command like find /path/to/files/ -type f -name '*.txt' -exec rm {} ;– sanjayparmar
Sep 18 '18 at 8:25
To remove multiple files you can use
find command like find /path/to/files/ -type f -name '*.txt' -exec rm {} ;– sanjayparmar
Sep 18 '18 at 8:25
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As suggested by Janne in the comments, I looked over my syslog and found many mail failing to send errors which was causing them to be deferred thus pile up in the mqueue-client folder.
After doing some digging it turns out crontab is set to mail root on completion/notices/warnings/errors. By issuing crontab -e and adding MAILTO="" to the top of the config, no more mail is sent out, problem fixed!
Now I'm clearing out the 1.5 million or so bad emails from mqueue-client using this Bash script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cd mqueue-client
deleted=0
for i in `ls`
do
rm -f $i
percentage=$(bc <<< "scale=2; ($deleted / 1035435) * 100")
((deleted++))
echo "Deleted $i. Files deleted $deleted. $percentage% complete."
done
Run from /var/spool using ./filename
Update
Unfortunately after running this script all night the mail queue wasn't being significantly reduced. This was because I hadn't disabled the minute running CRON that was set to clear the queue but was resulting in the backlog growing. Hopefully now this is disabled everything should clear.
answered May 8 '14 at 16:39
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As suggested by Janne in the comments, I looked over my syslog and found many mail failing to send errors which was causing them to be deferred thus pile up in the mqueue-client folder.
After doing some digging it turns out crontab is set to mail root on completion/notices/warnings/errors. By issuing crontab -e and adding MAILTO="" to the top of the config, no more mail is sent out, problem fixed!
Now I'm clearing out the 1.5 million or so bad emails from mqueue-client using this Bash script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cd mqueue-client
deleted=0
for i in `ls`
do
rm -f $i
percentage=$(bc <<< "scale=2; ($deleted / 1035435) * 100")
((deleted++))
echo "Deleted $i. Files deleted $deleted. $percentage% complete."
done
Run from /var/spool using ./filename
Update
Unfortunately after running this script all night the mail queue wasn't being significantly reduced. This was because I hadn't disabled the minute running CRON that was set to clear the queue but was resulting in the backlog growing. Hopefully now this is disabled everything should clear.
answered May 8 '14 at 16:39
BrodieBrodie
1056
add a comment |
As suggested by Janne in the comments, I looked over my syslog and found many mail failing to send errors which was causing them to be deferred thus pile up in the mqueue-client folder.
After doing some digging it turns out crontab is set to mail root on completion/notices/warnings/errors. By issuing crontab -e and adding MAILTO="" to the top of the config, no more mail is sent out, problem fixed!
Now I'm clearing out the 1.5 million or so bad emails from mqueue-client using this Bash script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cd mqueue-client
deleted=0
for i in `ls`
do
rm -f $i
percentage=$(bc <<< "scale=2; ($deleted / 1035435) * 100")
((deleted++))
echo "Deleted $i. Files deleted $deleted. $percentage% complete."
done
Run from /var/spool using ./filename
Update
Unfortunately after running this script all night the mail queue wasn't being significantly reduced. This was because I hadn't disabled the minute running CRON that was set to clear the queue but was resulting in the backlog growing. Hopefully now this is disabled everything should clear.
answered May 8 '14 at 16:39
BrodieBrodie
1056
add a comment |
As suggested by Janne in the comments, I looked over my syslog and found many mail failing to send errors which was causing them to be deferred thus pile up in the mqueue-client folder.
After doing some digging it turns out crontab is set to mail root on completion/notices/warnings/errors. By issuing crontab -e and adding MAILTO="" to the top of the config, no more mail is sent out, problem fixed!
Now I'm clearing out the 1.5 million or so bad emails from mqueue-client using this Bash script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cd mqueue-client
deleted=0
for i in `ls`
do
rm -f $i
percentage=$(bc <<< "scale=2; ($deleted / 1035435) * 100")
((deleted++))
echo "Deleted $i. Files deleted $deleted. $percentage% complete."
done
Run from /var/spool using ./filename
Update
Unfortunately after running this script all night the mail queue wasn't being significantly reduced. This was because I hadn't disabled the minute running CRON that was set to clear the queue but was resulting in the backlog growing. Hopefully now this is disabled everything should clear.
answered May 8 '14 at 16:39
BrodieBrodie
1056
As suggested by Janne in the comments, I looked over my syslog and found many mail failing to send errors which was causing them to be deferred thus pile up in the mqueue-client folder.
After doing some digging it turns out crontab is set to mail root on completion/notices/warnings/errors. By issuing crontab -e and adding MAILTO="" to the top of the config, no more mail is sent out, problem fixed!
Now I'm clearing out the 1.5 million or so bad emails from mqueue-client using this Bash script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cd mqueue-client
deleted=0
for i in `ls`
do
rm -f $i
percentage=$(bc <<< "scale=2; ($deleted / 1035435) * 100")
((deleted++))
echo "Deleted $i. Files deleted $deleted. $percentage% complete."
done
Run from /var/spool using ./filename
Update
Unfortunately after running this script all night the mail queue wasn't being significantly reduced. This was because I hadn't disabled the minute running CRON that was set to clear the queue but was resulting in the backlog growing. Hopefully now this is disabled everything should clear.
answered May 8 '14 at 16:39
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Logs, my friend, logs. Have you read them at all? Boldly enter
/var/loglair and see what it holds.– Janne Pikkarainen
May 8 '14 at 12:35
thanks @janne you helped me solve the problem, see my answer for more info
– Brodie
May 8 '14 at 19:30
Great! Have a nice weekend. :)
– Janne Pikkarainen
May 9 '14 at 9:41
To remove multiple files you can use
findcommand likefind /path/to/files/ -type f -name '*.txt' -exec rm {} ;– sanjayparmar
Sep 18 '18 at 8:25