Hi All,

We're running Sendmail 8.13.6 under FreeBSD. We've got the 'default'
mail queue setup (aka '/var/spool/mqueue/queue*') - and a queue group
called 'ourqueue' setup as '/var/spool/mqueue/ourqueue).

If 'ourqueue' has a large number of messages in it (say, 5,000) - when
we run:

sendmail -q -v

>From the command line - sendmail will try all the messages in
'ourqueue', before moving onto the 'default' queue.

Whilst you can specifically run a queue with:

sendmail -qGourqueue -v

Is there an option to specifically run the 'default' queue - i.e.
'/var/spool/mqueue/queue*') - so that we don't have to wait for it to
go through the whole contents of 'ourqueue' first?

I've also noticed that when 'ourqueue' does have a few thousand
messages in it - it 'seems' to impact the number of queue runners that
are running the 'default' queue - I'd guess they're all getting caught
up in the 'ourqueue' contents first?

Thanks for any ,

Jon

In article <1161171404.613292.3220@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.c om> "JonB"
<jfretby@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>Whilst you can specifically run a queue with:
>
> sendmail -qGourqueue -v
>
>Is there an option to specifically run the 'default' queue - i.e.
>'/var/spool/mqueue/queue*') - so that we don't have to wait for it to
>go through the whole contents of 'ourqueue' first?

Well, the default queue group is called "mqueue" (see doc/op/op.*), so

sendmail -qGmqueue -v

may work (untested).

--Per Hedeland
per@hedeland.org

Per Hedeland wrote:
> In article <1161171404.613292.3220@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.c om> "JonB"
> <jfretby@googlemail.com> writes:
> >
> >Whilst you can specifically run a queue with:
> >
> > sendmail -qGourqueue -v
> >
> >Is there an option to specifically run the 'default' queue - i.e.
> >'/var/spool/mqueue/queue*') - so that we don't have to wait for it to
> >go through the whole contents of 'ourqueue' first?
>
> Well, the default queue group is called "mqueue" (see doc/op/op.*), so
>
> sendmail -qGmqueue -v
>
> may work (untested).
>
> --Per Hedeland
> per@hedeland.org

Bingo! - Thanks! - That appears to work fine!

Cheers,

Jon