Problem when shut/start sendmail and mailscanner

[Julian Field]

At 22:34 16/08/2002, you wrote:
>The filenames are start with "df" and "xf", e.g. dfg7DBSLt13069 and
>xfg7DBSLt13069.
>
>Do you think what I can to delete this files ?

The last thing sendmail does with a message is rename the xf to qf, so you 
could do that. On www.sendmail.org there is a really good script to start 
sendmail that cleans up the queue really well.


>Fernando.
>
>Julian Field wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ