Need help badly...
Rishi Gangoly
rishi at THEARGONCOMPANY.COM
Tue May 21 16:33:47 IST 2002
Wow! ok great. So why was the Cobalt RaQ4 configured with the multiple queue
directories feature to begin with?
Will I putting my server at risk if I do so?
Regards
Rishi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: Need help badly...
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > >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
>
> --
> 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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