Process mqueue.in

[Miguel Koren O'Brien de Lacy]

Julian;

Thanks, that was very clear. I now see that the problem is that I do not
have the 'df' pair to the 'qf' file.

Miguel

Julian Field wrote:

> At 17:45 07/10/2002, you wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info but it did not do anything in my case (mailscanner
>> was stopped). Perhaps I don't have a full understanding of what
>> mqueue.in holds. I believe these are mails that arrived and should be
>> placed in the user's mailboces, right? If so, is this something sendmail
>> does or is this what procmail is for? I assume that the command you sent
>> is supposed to send these mails to the other sendmail instance to scan
>> and place in the mail boxes. What I don't understand is that all other
>> mails are moving through, why would these be stuck?
>
>
> The incoming sendmail process dumps messages in mqueue.in and does
> nothing
> else with them.
> MailScanner should then pick them up (subject to a few checks for things
> like 0 length files and qf files with no corresponding df file). It
> processes them, then dumps then in mqueue and (optionally) tells the
> outgoing sendmail process they are there.
> The outgoing sendmail process picks them up (whether it was told about
> them
> or not) and delivers them. It may invoke procmail to deliver them, but
> that's entirely up to sendmail and is nothing to do with MailScanner.
>
> So if you have thousands of qf+df pairs of files in your mqueue.in, and
> they aren't zero-length, then something is wrong.
>
> You can force delivery of these, bypassing MailScanner altogether for
> these
> messages, with the command
>         sendmail -oQ/var/spool/mqueue.in -q -v
> Be warned, this will be very verbose. If you want it to run silently,
> remove the "-v". It will run through the entire mqueue.in once and then
> stop, trying to deliver each message in turn.
>
> If qf+df pairs of files are still collecting in mqueue.in, but all 3 of
>         1) incoming sendmail
>         2) MailScanner
>         3) outgoing sendmail
> are all running, then something is wrong that is causing MailScanner to
> miss these incoming messages. If this is the case, you might want to post
> me your mailscanner.conf file so I can sanity check it for you.
>
>> Chris Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> sendmail -oQ/var/spool/mqueue.in -q -v
>>>
>>> That is what I replied last time...not sure if that is what you are
>>> looking
>>> for thought.
>>> make sure mailscanner is off when you do this though.
>>> ======================
>>>
>>> I know this has been discussed before but I could not find the
>>> information in the mailing list archive, nor in my mailbox. And it's
>>> also a sendmail problem but maybe someone knows what to do.
>>>
>>> Yesterday afternoon I noticed that my server had a few thousand mails
>>> stacked up in mqueue.in but I cant'figure out how to move them out (nor
>>> do I know what caused the to stack up). What's the procedure for moving
>>> them out to the mailboxes?
>>
>
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