Messages stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 1:55 am, David Hooton wrote:

> Hi Antony,
>
> -rw-------    1 root     root       191306 Aug 22 17:30 dfh7M7TmV18539
> -rw-------    1 root     root            0 Aug 23 01:15 dfh7MFFIN30627
> -rw-------    1 root     root            0 Aug 23 06:00 dfh7MK0L426003

Well, these are all df files - mail bodies only.   Some of them are zero
size, so there's no body either.

You should simply delete these.

Without the corresponding qf file, you have no idea what the subjects of the
email were, who they were from, who they were to, or any of sendmail's queue
processing information.

Therefore you have no idea whose emails they are or how to deliver them -
therefore you may as well delete them.

If you're curious about how they got there, grep your syslog file for the ID
numbers (the bit following the df, so h7M7TmV18539 in the first example
above).

You can get an idea of when that message was processed from the ID as well:

http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-2001-05/msg00293.html

So the first ID above decodes to:
h - 2003
7 - August
M - 22nd
7 - 07 hours
T - 29 minutes
m - 48 seconds

22nd August 2003 @ 07:29:48

Regards,

Antony.

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