more hung-up email

[Quentin Campbell]

Jeff

We suffer the same problem with MailScanner 3.12.2 using sendmail 8.10.1
under RedHat 7.2. 

I get left with orphaned xf*, tf* and df* files but _no_ corresponding
entry in the sendmail logs. This suggests to me that the problem lies
with sendmail daemon not completing the SMTP transaction and thus not
writing the qf* file. 

I am surprised that I do not see anything in the sendmail logs. 

Quentin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff A. Earickson [mailto:jaearick at COLBY.EDU] 
> Sent: 21 May 2002 16:34
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: more hung-up email
> 
> 
> I'll ad these tidbits...  I'm running mailscanner 3.13.2, it 
> is on an HPUX 11.11 system, and there is no corresponding qf 
> file for the days-old df files left in mqueue.in.  So this is 
> the reason why the
> messages don't show up in the mailq output.   Hmmm.  Maybe this is
> a sendmail screw-up instead.  I'm moving my mail service to a 
> Sun/ Solaris8 boxnext Monday (with the current mailscanner), 
> so hopefully this issue wil become moot.
> 
> --- Jeff
> 
> > Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:23:25 -0400
> > From: Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: more hung-up email
> >
> > Julian,
> >
> >    I have a similar problem to "need help badly", but I don't use 
> > multiple mail queues.  I did an "ls -l" of my 
> /var/spool/mqueue.in and 
> > found days-old messages in there.  But when I do:
> >
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail -bp -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
> >
> > mailq just shows the current stuff in there, not the old 
> stuff.  If I 
> > stop and restart both mailscanner and sendmail, mailscanner 
> does not 
> > pick up the old stuff, scan it, and move it to 
> /var/spool/mqueue.  It 
> > just stays.  Any ideas?
> >
> > ** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D                         PHONE: 
> 207-872-3659
> > ** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology    EMAIL: 
> jaearick at colby.edu
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> 207-872-3076
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