Problem when shut/start sendmail and mailscanner

[Fernando L. M. Gonçalves]

> >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.
>

And when there is only "df" files in the mqueue.in directory ?
I don't found the script in www.sendmail.org.

Fernando.

>
> >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
>
> --
> 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