Need help badly...

[Rishi Gangoly]

HI Julian,

The weird part is that if I do a mailq it does not display all these
messages.

but the messages are there in the mqueue folder.

I tried to do a sendmail -q15m  ........ no joy. it just exits.

Regards

Rishi


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: Need help badly...


> At 10:02 21/05/2002, you wrote:
> >I have about 1400 odd messages on Cobalt RaQ4 Linux mail server in the
> >/var/spool/mqueue folder (actually /home/spool/mqueue folder)
> >
> > > -rw-------   1 root     root         2223 May 21 13:37 qfg4L87BW05113
> > > -rw-------   1 root     root          840 May 21 13:37 qfg4L87TW05151
> > > -rw-------   1 root     root          859 May 21 13:38 qfg4L88cW05223
> >
> >I have stopped mailscanner and started sendmail. My mail is now working,
but
> >I wanted to know how to
>
> If they are all in mqueue and not mqueue.in then MailScanner is basically
> doing its job. I suspect you might not have any processes like "sendmail
> -q15m" running perhaps?
>
> >1. get mailscanner to work... find out why it is not working.(how does
one
> >debug?)
>
> Watch the syslog.
>
> >2. get all these undelivered messages .... delivered.
>
> sendmail -q
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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