Need help badly...
Julian Field
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue May 21 16:08:37 IST 2002
Aha!
Now we have a cause for the problem. You never told me there were
directories under your mqueue and/or mqueue.in directories.
If you look near the top of your /etc/sendmail.cf (or possibly
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf) you will find a definition for
O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue/q*
(it will read something like that). Knock the "/q*" off the end so it just
reads
O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue
and restart both your sendmail processes.
Then you should find it starts to deliver the messages.
MailScanner still doesn't support multiple outgoing queue directories
(sorry about that, haven't had the time to write support for it, which is
non-trivial).
At 15:21 21/05/2002, you wrote:
>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
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> >
> > >I tried to do a sendmail -q15m ........ no joy. it just exits.
> >
> > In which case try sendmail -v -q15m and see what that prints.
>
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>
>
>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
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>Does this help understand the problem?
>
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>Regards
>
>Rishi
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> >
> > >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
--
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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