No Message Collected

[Bill Omer]

Both the mqueue and mqueue.in directories are on the same file system,
and neither of them contain any sub directories.  One thing that I don't
think I made clear was that this is a random problem.  Out of 50K pieces
of mail that are delivered to my mail server, I've only had a couple
handful of complaints about this problem (that's not to say that it
hasn't happened more than what we are aware of though).

I changed from 'batch' to 'queue' processing, we'll see how that works
for us and I'll let you know if it happens again.

Thanks for the help,
Bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:30 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: No Message Collected
>
> Can you check your mqueue and mqueue.in directories are on the same
> filesystem? sounds like the message body isn't linking across to the
> outgoing queue.
>
> The other test you can do is change the delivery mode to "queue"
instead
> of
> batch. Kill the sendmail process that is handling the outgoing queue
(the
> one you started like "sendmail -q15m"). Then all the processed
messages
> should just collect in the outgoing mqueue directory. Make sure there
is a
> df file and a qf file for each message in that directory.
>
> Is your mqueue.in directory just a flat directory with no sub-dirs off
it?
> Like wise for mqueue?
>
> At 15:47 02/10/2002, you wrote:
> >Since upgrading to version 4, I'm having lots of complains about
> >duplicate messages being delivered, with one of the copies containing
> >only the following in the message body:
> ><<< No Message Collected >>>
> >
> > >From what I understand, this is caused when the DATA connection is
> >terminated during the communication to sendmail.  However, I'm not
sure
> >why two copies of the same message would be sent, with only failing
and
> >the other not.
> >
> >Has anyone noticed this before?  Any ideas what could be causing this
or
> >how to work around it?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Bill Omer
>
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