Messages stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 1:39 am, David Hooton wrote:

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

What, exactly, does it (the ls) show?

If sendmail is saying there are no mails in the queue, then there are no
mails waiting to be delivered.

You may have some old files hanging around in /var/spool/mqueue, but they're
almost certainly not df/qf.... mail queue file pairs.

I bet either the qf.... file has got renamed to Qf.... or else you have an
xf.... file instead.   Either way this indicates a delivery failure
sufficiently severe to cause sendmail to give up and not bother trying again.

If, on the other hand, you really do have matching pairs of df/qf.... files
in /var/spool/mqueue and yet sendmail still claims there is nothing in the
queue, then you should check that this is the directory from which sendmail
is expecting to deliver email.

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

Why?   Sounds like a sendmail thing to me.

Antony.

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