{"id":162,"date":"2018-01-22T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncodenicer.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:08:50","slug":"how-to-delete-message-from-sendmail-queue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"How to delete message from sendmail queue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First find it with<br><code><br>$ mailq<br>\/var\/spool\/mqueue (1 request)<br>-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender\/Recipient-----------<br>w0MEs0vA055142 5289 Mon Jan 22 14:54<br>(Deferred: Operation timed out with some server.)<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>Total requests: 1<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then delete it using qtool.pl (in sendmail&#8217;s <code>contrib<\/code> dir):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>.\/qtool.pl -C \/etc\/mail\/sendmail.cf -d \/var\/spool\/mqueue\/w0MEs0vA055142<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First find it with$ mailq\/var\/spool\/mqueue (1 request)&#8212;&#8211;Q-ID&#8212;&#8211; &#8211;Size&#8211; &#8212;&#8211;Q-Time&#8212;&#8211; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;Sender\/Recipient&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;w0MEs0vA055142 5289 Mon Jan 22 14:54(Deferred: Operation timed out with some server.) Total requests: 1 Then delete it using qtool.pl (in sendmail&#8217;s contrib dir): .\/qtool.pl -C \/etc\/mail\/sendmail.cf -d \/var\/spool\/mqueue\/w0MEs0vA055142<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,109],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freebsd","tag-sendmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}