Need help badly...

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue May 21 14:07:29 IST 2002


At 13:53 21/05/2002, you wrote:
>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.

You haven't broken the soft link joining /var/spool/mqueue to
/home/spool/mqueue have you? If all the files are there (one df and one qf
for each message) then mailq should display them.


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

In which case try sendmail -v -q15m and see what that prints.


>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
> > 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



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