Messages stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[David Hooton]

It's saying there are no messages in the queue?!

But an ls -la shows there to be at least 20 messages all from the last 5
- 10 days.

I'm pretty sure this is a Mailscanner thing..

/var/spool/mqueue also has a few messages in it which it is saying don't
exist.

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Regards,

David Hooton
Senior Partner
Platform Hosting
1300 85 HOST
www.platformhosting.com

Furnish, Trever G wrote:

> What do you mean by "stuck"?  When you run mailq
> -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in, what is the reason listed for each
> message in the queue?  If it says something like "Deferred: DNS Timeout" or
> "Deferred: Connection refused", you're probably just seeing the normal queue
> time for a message that can't be delivered due to some problem with an
> external site (invalid domain name, dead mx servers, misconfigured mx
> servers, etc).
>
> Depending on how your timeouts are set, they may be there for five days or
> longer before they completely time out.  And then the bounce may be there
> for another five days if that fails too. :-)
>
> -t.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Hooton [mailto:david at PLATFORMHOSTING.COM]
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:49 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Messages stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in
>>
>>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>What should I do about messages which seem to have been stuck in
>>/var/spool/mqueue.in for a number of days?
>>
>>Why would they get stuck in there?
>>
>>Any and all help much appreciated :)
>>--
>>Regards,
>>
>>David Hooton
>>Senior Partner
>>Platform Hosting
>>1300 85 HOST
>>www.platformhosting.com
>>
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