FW: residual mails

[Julian Field]

At 09:10 22/10/2002, you wrote:
>Addendum to my earlier mail. This looks like sendmail behaviour as I see
>files in mqueue directory also where df and xf files exist but no qf files.
>mailq returns empty queue. The xf file only seems to contain one line of
>data saying "<<< DATA".

The incoming message got interrupted before the DATA stream finished. The
sending mail server will have re-tried the message and sent it successfully
later. Harmless.


>Thus I surmised moving the files from mqueue.in to mqueue directory would
>not help. This means my machine is gobbling up mails - gives me a scary
>feeling. Can someone help me with this please? I'm posting this to sendmail
>list also to see if I get a response.
>
>Mohan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: S Mohan [mailto:smohan at vsnl.com]
>Sent: 22 October 2002 13:25
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: residual mails
>
>
>I've upgraded to 4.xx version released. Thanks Julian. I feel a major
>enhancement is the facility to use rules for any setting. Great feature
>apart from the speed and enhancement of vulnerability protection.
>
>Over the past few months, I've noticed that some residual dfxxxxx files
>remain in the mqueue.in directory. Mailscanner does not seem to flush them
>at all into the regular mail queue. Why would this happen and can we force
>mailscanner to process these mails?
>
>In V4 rules, can we specify a not condition using a ! before the match
>string for exclusion?
>
>Bye
>S Mohan, Vectra Systems and Solutions Pvt Ltd.,
>smohan at vectrasystems.com <mailto:smohan at vectrasystems.com>  visit us at
>www.vectrasystems.com <http://www.vectrasystems.com/>

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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