Messages in Mqueue not being delivered

[f ewf]

Take a look at the file names of the "stuck" messages in and queue and see
the key at http://people.freenet.de/slgig/op_en/appendix_b.html .  If your
qf files are becoming Qf files, a configuration problem may need to be
fixed and the uppercase Q put back to q to resume processing.



At 03:15 PM 8/8/2003, you wrote:
>         I am not sure this is a MailScanner issue, but someone here probably
>knows more about sendmail than I do and can help with this.
>
>         We are running MailScanner 4.50 with the patch, and Spamassassin on
>a RedHat Linux 8.0 machine. Twice in the past 2 days the mail has stopped
>being delivered. It comes in, and is scanned, moves from mqueue.in to mqueue
>then just sits there.
>
>         If I reboot the machine, everything starts being delivered again
>EXCEPT for the ones which were sitting in mqueue previously. This has
>happened twice now and I have 5000 messages sitting in mqueue.
>
>         Anything new which comes in is immediately scanned and delivered.
>Running sendmail -q processes the new messages but not the old ones. And
>running sendmail -qI<id> -v just comes back to the prompt with nothing else
>printed.
>
>         Any ideas? Are these old messages now marked as undeliverable and
>will never be delieverd again? Help please?
>
>         Thanks
>         Richard Peiper