Is it safe to rm files from /var/spool/mqueue?

Is it safe to just remove messages that are failing to be delivered, or is there some other special sendmail “cancel delivery” command that I can execute to remove these from the queue?  Is it necessary to stop sendmail if I touch /var/spool/mqueue, or can I just rm the queued message files there while sendmail is still running?

(FYI this is on Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS)

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