/var/spool/clientmque 185meg

[Brian Reichert]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:05:52AM +1000, Warren wrote:
> > Is the undelivered mail destined to local users, or are there any
> > remote users involved?
> 
> I had a .forward to anold email address and i was away and had a problem with 
> the machine and the emails bounced then they bounced etc etc .. If i can get 
> em into root on the same machien i can then d/l em across the network.

I'm confused (my knowledge of sendmail is getting stale): if the
mail bounced, or double-bounced, it should ultimately end up in
someone's mail folder, either the originators, or, if that can't
work, postmaster's.

If you have mail in /var/spool/clientmqueue, then it sounds like mail
hasn't been delivered yet.  What does 'mailq' show you?

Is the undelivered mail destined for a local user (yourself, or
postmaster), or is it destined for a remote address?

If it's destined for a local user, you should be able to use aliases
to vector it into the mailbox you want.  See aliases(5).

If it's destined for a local user, but not being delivered, then
we'd have to look a little deeper...

What are your sendmail-related settings in rc.conf?

> -- 
> Yours Sincerely
> Shinjii
> http://www.shinji.nq.nu

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