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TOP shows nothing that would normally worry me. Just stopping sendmail and restarting it a few minutes later did not help. Yes, SpamAssassin, recently updated, is on board. Has been since the machine was set up 3-4 years ago and on the previous ones. No changes there either. Yes, plain text...

Sendmail on CentOS, standard default config, worked fine for years on that machine, suddenly starts deferring mails with attachments for 72 hours. Restarting Apache and Sendmail a couple of times fixes the problem and it works normally for a couple of weeks, then does this abnormal deferring...

Take "test" out of the subject line. It is quite common to use that as a trigger in MailWasher or SpamAssassin to detect spam.

There is a lot of that going around. It seems to be a queue related problem. For some mysterious reason SENDMAIL puts stuff with attachments into deferred status into the queue. Even a mug-shot in the signature block can cause that. Plain text test mails get through OK. Total mystery. Bad...

How can I delete a big bunch of mails from the mailqueue without hunting each ones two files down with locate and manually delete them? Is there a command for that? Or has somebody ever written a bash script for that, that takes for example the FROM address and dumps all mails with that FROM...