more hung-up email

[Julian Field]

At 17:00 21/05/2002, you wrote:
>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.

If you crank sendmail's LogLevel up to about 14 or so, you should start to
see the SMTP connects.

Can I just re-iterate that it's *not* a MailScanner problem.


>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
> > > ** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,               FAX:
> > 207-872-3076
> > > ** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
> > >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ------
> > >
> >

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