No it will stop messages from being started that are not already sending,
wait 2 minutes to allow active messages to finish first.
ChrisP.
  Does “tellmail suspend” immediately halt all messages that are currently
  being sent such that “tellmail delete_contains” will catch everything, and
  then we can do a “tellmail resume”? 
   
  Regards, 
   
  Frank 
   
  From: surgemail-support [mailto:surgemail-support@netwinsite.com] 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 8:03 PM 
  To: surgemail-list@netwinsite.com 
  Subject: re: Re: RE: [SurgeMail List] Account Status settings 
   
  Good question, yes: 
   
  tellmail suspend 
   
  (followed by tellmail resume) 
   
  ChrisP. 
   
   
  is there a command to stop all outbound email so an admin has time to
  clean up the queues? 
  Paul 
  On Aug 1, 2014, at 2:14 AM, surgemail-support
  <surgemail-support@netwinsite.com<mailto:surgemail-support@netwinsite.com>>
  wrote: 
  That command deletes all the matching queue files on disk, but any
  message which is currently being 'sent' (or trying to send) is effectively
  locked so it can't touch them. 
  ChrisP. 
  Why didn’t it get them all the first time through? 
  Frank 
  From: Tom Cross [mailto:tomc@html.com.au] 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 7:06 AM 
  To:
  surgemail-list@netwinsite.com<mailto:surgemail-list@netwinsite.com>
  
  Subject: re: [SurgeMail List] Account Status settings 
  Hi 
  Changed password. 
  Ran tellmail delete_contains
  user@xyz.com<mailto:user@xyz.com<mailto:user@xyz.com%3cmailto:user@xyz.com>>
  Changing the email to hacked user. 
  Returned "deleted 19/20 msg files
  (ccc@ddd.com.au<mailto:ccc@ddd.com.au<mailto:ccc@ddd.com.au%3cmailto:ccc@ddd.com.au>>)
  - restart surgemail now. 
  I restarted Surgemail 
  Ran telmail again 
  Returned "deleted 2/3 msg files
  (ccc@ddd.com.au<mailto:ccc@ddd.com.au<mailto:ccc@ddd.com.au%3cmailto:ccc@ddd.com.au>>)
  - restart surgemail now. 
  Ran telmail again 
  Returned "deleted 0/1 msg files
  (ccc@ddd.com.au<mailto:ccc@ddd.com.au<mailto:ccc@ddd.com.au%3cmailto:ccc@ddd.com.au>>)
  - restart surgemail now. 
  tom cross 
  Partner Synergist 
  0418 295 336 
  tomc@html.net.au<mailto:tomc@html.net.au<mailto:tomc@html.net.au%3cmailto:tomc@html.net.au>>
  
  [cid:image001.jpg@01CFAD11.F49D42F0] 
  On Tuesday 29/07/2014 at 10:59:12, surgemail-support wrote: 
  Suspended prevents the user sending email. However message that are
  already queued will continue to go out, you can use the command 
  tellmail delete_contains
  user@xyz.com<mailto:user@xyz.com<mailto:user@xyz.com%3cmailto:user@xyz.com>>
  
  to delete queue entries containing that account name. 
  It is most likely a hacker is sending with the account and changing the
  password is probably the best thing to do. Inspecting the ip addresses used to
  send should determine for sure. 
  ChrisP. 
  Hi 
  What do the various settings in "Account Status" do please 
  We have a Users sending out spam. 
  Their IT people are checking with AV etc. 
  We changed the Status to Suspended, but still finding outward mail in the
  Queue.?? 
  tom cross 
  Partner Synergist 
  0418 295 336 
  tomc@html.net.au<mailto:tomc@html.net.au<mailto:tomc@html.net.au%3cmailto:tomc@html.net.au>>