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my explanation should give a method to verify -- however, its hard to be sure that this is the case the asker is experiencing.<br />
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I would think that it should work (the URL reference is no longer valid :(.<br />
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Cheers.
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my explanation should give a method to verify -- however, its hard to be sure that this is the case the asker is experiencing.

I would think that it should work (the URL reference is no longer valid :(.

Cheers.

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Hi,<br />
&nbsp; I have a server running solaris 2.8, mailq returns /var/spool/mqueue is empty,<br />
but ls /var/spool/mqueue at least 1000 entries. &nbsp;I thought these two should be<br />
the same. &nbsp; Why is this?<br />
<br />
thanks in advance
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Hi,
  I have a server running solaris 2.8, mailq returns /var/spool/mqueue is empty,
but ls /var/spool/mqueue at least 1000 entries.  I thought these two should be
the same.   Why is this?

thanks in advance

mailq returns empty, but ls /var/spool/mqueue returns 1022 entries

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.