On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Joe DeBattista wrote:

>Hi,
>    I'm wondering if there's a way to force the processing of *.mail files
>by sendmail.  The mail that is waiting to go to the outside world ends up
>in xxxxxxxx.mail.  Listserv seems to process these in a Last In First Out
>for a while, and then switches to a First In First Out for a while until
>things get caught up.  When I look at one of the files, it seems to have
>all the SMTP commands to be processed by sendmail.  Is there a command
>that can be issued to sendmail to process specific files manually?  With
>all the viruses going through recently, our listserv processing is taking
>a very long time.  I have some .mail files that are sometimes 2 or 3 hours
>old.

The command "sendmail -q" will run the queue. See the sendmail man
page for details.