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To clear *all* messages from the queue, shut down qmail, then:

cd /var/qmail/queue && find intd todo local remote mess info bounce -type f -print |xargs rm

Start qmail back up, and the queue should be empty.

[[Category:Common Tasks]]

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	see also: [[Qmail, flushing the queue]], [[Qmail, monitoring the queue]]		see also: [[Qmail, flushing the queue]], [[Qmail, monitoring the queue]]

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   server# '''cd /var/qmail/queue && find bounce -type f -print |xargs rm'''
-see also: [[Qmail, flushing the queue]]
+see also: [[Qmail, flushing the queue]], [[Qmail, monitoring the queue]]
 [[Category:Common Tasks]]

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		+	see also: [[Qmail, flushing the queue]]

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   server# '''/usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh start'''
-Start qmail back up, and the queue should be empty.  Note that if you only wanted to clear out bounce messages (a fairly frequent cause of mailservers getting wedged) you could abbreviate the ''find'' part of the sequence above like so:
+Start qmail back up, and the queue should be empty.  Note that if you only wanted to clear out bounce messages (a fairly frequent cause of mailservers getting wedged) you could abbreviate the '''find''' part of the sequence above like so:
   server# '''cd /var/qmail/queue && find bounce -type f -print |xargs rm'''
 [[Category:Common Tasks]]

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-To delete '''all''' messages from the queue, shut down qmail, then:
+If you've done something unfortunate and wedged your mailserver with more messages queued up than it can handle, you may need to just get rid of everything in its queue to recover.
   server# '''cd /var/qmail/queue && find intd todo local remote mess info bounce -type f -print |xargs rm'''
-Start qmail back up, and the queue should be empty.  Note that if, for example, you just want to clear bounce messages, you could do:
+Start qmail back up, and the queue should be empty.  Note that if you only wanted to clear out bounce messages (a fairly frequent cause of mailservers getting wedged) you could abbreviate the ''find'' part of the sequence above like so:
   server# '''cd /var/qmail/queue && find bounce -type f -print |xargs rm'''
 [[Category:Common Tasks]]