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how do you stop a mail server / actionmailer?

I just ran a command that's sending out mass emails to everyone.

How do I force stop my action mailer?

the job was done through delayed_job and I tried rake jobs:clear and script/delayed_job stop

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try kill -9 on the process

shingara  2010-10-28 12:40:23
how? where? ...
Trip  2010-10-28 12:46:15
on your server where your actionmailer run. On the process where your actionmailer run. Shutdown your application or all of your worker. Clear your work job
shingara  2010-10-28 13:00:23
@Trip: `ps aux | grep delay` or `ps aux | grep ruby` might help.
Swanand  2010-10-28 13:13:04
Thanks guys. Don't let me program a nuclear silo.
Trip  2010-10-28 13:32:18
@Swanand, if my grep returns `alorus 7975 0.0 3.0 59512 55052 ? S Oct07 2:37 delayed_job alorus 7815 0.0 0.0 1792 508 pts/0 R+ 06:34 0:00 grep --colour=auto delay`, What part do i kill?
Trip  2010-10-28 13:35:50

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