On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 02:54:52PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 04:22:20PM +0000, R Aldridge wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Until we get our total qmail solution in place (hopefully this Sunday) we are
> > still stuck with qmail acting as a buffer for our old sendmail system. As our
> > trusty sendmail server went down today, we were left with rather a large
> > backlog of messages on our qmail machine.
> >
> > I have a user who "needs his mail NOW!". Unfortunately, his mail is stuck in
> > the queue. Whilst I have found that I am able to locate messages addressed to
> > him using find and grep, I don't know how I could force qmail to deliver his
> > messages before anyone else, or reprioritise his messages. Does anyone have
> > any ideas please ?
>
> # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok
> # kill -ALRM <pid of qmail-send>
>
> This does not attempt to send the particular user's messages first...
Oops. I didn't read the question carefully enough. I thought it was just a
how-do-I-get-the-queue-going-again question.
In any case, unless the queue is just absolutely enormous, getting it running
again and having sensible concurrency settings ought to get this person his
mail in reasonably short order.
Chris
