[nylug-talk] clearing a stuck postfix message

[Scott Robbins]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:29:51PM -0500, Michael Bubb wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Occaisionally a message gets stuck in our /var/spool/mail/ .
> 
> I go in through vi and delete the stuck message up to the next message's
> header.
> 
> It has worked well up to this point. I go in to check it using pine and I
> can see  messages populating the inbox.

Are you familiar with postsuper?  It will delete messages--either by
message ID or ALL messages.  It might have finer controls than that,
I've only used it in those two instances.  (A very quick scan of the man
page indicates that yes, there are other options like -d ALL deferred.)


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Scott Robbins

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