Problem when shut/start sendmail and mailscanner

[Julian Field]

Exactly what are the filenames left behind?

If they start with a capital letter, they are partly-received messages that 
sendmail was reading when it was killed.

The messages are re-sent completely when sendmail starts up again. These 
files can be safely deleted, as can zero-length "qf" files, and "df" files 
with no corresponding "qf" file. "tf" files with no corresponding "qf" file 
can be renamed to "qf".

What all that boils down to is this:
MailScanner will pick up completely delivered messages (qf and df pairs of 
files). Anything else will be ignored.

At 21:53 16/08/2002, you wrote:
>When I shutdown sendmail and mailscanner the files remaining in the
>mqueue.in directory aren´t processed when I start sendmail/mailscanner
>again.
>The mailscanner start a new sequence of files in mqueue.in directory and
>ignore the old files.

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