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How do i get sendmail to process mails in /var/spool/clientmqueue? sendmail -q does not work for this directory.

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You will need to check what items are in that folder, if it is a qf/df pair, then it probably a failed mail transaction. So something wrong with your setting or mail not going out or to someone or even got rejected.

You also need to know that the normal "sendmail -q" will process the queue every one hour interval. You can do "sendmail -q10m" to make it process the queue every 10minutes.

It will also be good to check the mail queue "mailq -v -Ac", see if its empty or not. If its empty, then those mail in the clientmqueue, must have been the one that are not successful.

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mailq -Ac -v show the queue as empty, so it is safe to remove these files? – Robert Sep 15 '09 at 9:31
If there are only a few qf/df pair, you can try can cat the file and see the content before removing it. I used a perl scripts from here (brandonhutchinson.com/deleting_mail_queue.html) to check the queue and removing it, it is much more easier and safer. – Muhammad Sep 16 '09 at 1:10

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