Need help badly...

[Rishi Gangoly]

Hi Julian,

Thanks for responding to my messages... I am still in deep trouble.

I've responded below to your questions.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Need help badly...


> 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 don't think so...  Can you see if this is what you are saying?

[root spool]# pwd
/var/spool


[root spool]# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 May 21 01:13 MailScanner
drwx------   2 root     root         1024 May 21 07:13 cron
drwxrwxr-t   2 root     mail         8192 May 21 19:42 mail
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           23 Mar 16 06:52 mqueue ->
../../home/spool/mqueue
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           21 May 21 01:20 mqueue.in ->
/home/spool/mqueue.in
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     mail         1024 May 21 01:21 mqueue.in.old
drwxrwxrwt   2 root     root         1024 May 24  2001 samba


I renamed the mqueue.in folder created by mailscanner to mqueue.in.old

Could that have cause all the trouble?


Here is the contents of /home/spool


[root spool]# pwd
/home/spool

[root spool]# ls -l
total 46
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     mail         8192 May 21 10:59 mail
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     root        35840 May 21 13:38 mqueue
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2048 May 21 13:38 mqueue.in


Does it look ok?


Here is the output of 'ls mqueue'

[root spool]# ls mqueue
dfg4KJqsW26104  dfg4L0iTW10067  dfg4L49FW22013  dfg4L5s2W28853  q4
qfg4L0fxW09940  qfg4L47GW21913  qfg4L5s0W28852
dfg4KJrrW26181  dfg4L0kjW10170  dfg4L4CRW22194  dfg4L5sIW28861
qfg4KJqsW26104  qfg4L0iTW10067  qfg4L49FW22013  qfg4L5s2W28853
dfg4KJsTW26254  dfg4L0lQW10202  dfg4L4CVW22204  dfg4L5sLW28864
qfg4KJrrW26181  qfg4L0kjW10170  qfg4L4CRW22194  qfg4L5sIW28861
dfg4KJuGW26351  dfg4L0lVW10222  dfg4L4CWW22206  dfg4L5sMW28880
qfg4KJsTW26254  qfg4L0lQW10202  qfg4L4CVW22204  qfg4L5sLW28864
.
.        <STRIPPED DOWN OUTPUT>
.        <STRIPPED DOWN OUTPUT>
.
dfg4L0OrW09053  dfg4L446W21748  dfg4L5qFW28659  dfg4L87AW05107
qfg4L0OAW09022  qfg4L426W21646  qfg4L5qDW28657  qfg4L86uW05062
dfg4L0SuW09226  dfg4L45bW21816  dfg4L5qPW28663  dfg4L87BW05113
qfg4L0OrW09053  qfg4L446W21748  qfg4L5qFW28659  qfg4L87AW05107
dfg4L0UOW09316  dfg4L45gW21818  dfg4L5qrW28728  dfg4L87TW05151
qfg4L0SuW09226  qfg4L45bW21816  qfg4L5qPW28663  qfg4L87BW05113
dfg4L0ZBW09585  dfg4L45sW21830  dfg4L5r2W28749  dfg4L88cW05223
qfg4L0UOW09316  qfg4L45gW21818  qfg4L5qrW28728  qfg4L87TW05151
dfg4L0beW09723  dfg4L46nW21878  dfg4L5rAW28753  q1
qfg4L0ZBW09585  qfg4L45sW21830  qfg4L5r2W28749  qfg4L88cW05223
dfg4L0eYW09863  dfg4L476W21911  dfg4L5rbW28802  q2
qfg4L0beW09723  qfg4L46nW21878  qfg4L5rAW28753
dfg4L0fxW09940  dfg4L47GW21913  dfg4L5s0W28852  q3
qfg4L0eYW09863  qfg4L476W21911  qfg4L5rbW28802


And here is the word count...

[root spool]# ls mqueue | wc
   1446    1446   21642







>
>
> >I tried to do a sendmail -q15m  ........ no joy. it just exits.
>
> In which case try sendmail -v -q15m and see what that prints.




I tried that..... it says nothing.

If I do a mailq is shows the following output....


                /var/spool/mqueue/q1 (1 request)
----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient---------
---
g4IIAZs26896*     262 Sat May 18 23:40 mail
                 (Deferred: Connection timed out with forserve.com.)
                                       ftmanlfrbu at forserve.com
/var/spool/mqueue/q2 is empty
                /var/spool/mqueue/q3 (1 request)
----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient---------
---
g4JHnto03977*     262 Sun May 19 23:19 mail
                 (Deferred: Connection timed out with juserve.com.)
                                       cpwijaxi at juserve.com
/var/spool/mqueue/q4 is empty
                Total Requests: 2







Does this help understand the problem?



Regards

Rishi







>
>
> >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