[ale] Need some scripting assistance

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

Tim Meanor wrote:
> You could do something like this:
> 
> for i in `grep -l mail.panteq.com /var/spool/mqueue/*`;do
> rm $i
> done

Thinks like that won't work well if it's a Sendmail queue.  Sendmail 
uses multiple files per email to handle queue data, headers, state, etc. 
Simply deleting ones that contain a keyword doesn't mean you will get 
all relevant files.  Additionally Sendmail uses locks to control files, 
so therefore you should use something that respects those locks so as to 
not delete a file that is currently in use.

I quote from qtool:
   "Unless you are absolutely sure you do not interfere with the queue
    group selection mechanism, do not move queue files around."

;-)

-Jim P.