Mailscanner not picking up messages

[Craig Pratt]

In my case, I happened to save the files in mqueue.in before clearing
the directory. Here's what was in there:

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          272 2003-02-19 15:04 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           80 2003-02-19 15:03 ..
-rw-------    1 root     mail         1209 2002-12-12 11:32
qfgBCJW2i8026127
-rw-------    1 root     mail         1414 2003-01-03 10:25
qfh03IOui7005430
-rw-------    1 root     mail          972 2003-01-09 09:50
qfh09Ho4lH010557
-rw-------    1 root     mail          775 2003-01-24 01:08
qfh0O984tU024921
-rw-------    1 root     mail          838 2003-01-28 07:28
qfh0SFSmbD016558
-rw-------    1 root     mail          962 2003-02-01 09:58
qfh11Hwg6h019302
-rw-------    1 root     mail          992 2003-02-01 10:17
qfh11IGv6h019503

Craig

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 06:28  AM, Julian Field wrote:
> What does
>         cd /var/spool/mqueue.in
>         ls -al
> produce. It will be probably be clear (to me!) from that what is
> happening.
>
> At 14:18 25/02/2003, you wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have a problem here (still)
>> I have a couple of messages here in my mqueue.in directory
>> I keep on seeing this in my maillog file
>>
>> Feb 25 16:12:42 darkstar MailScanner[12529]: New Batch: Found 61
>> messages
>> waiting
>> Feb 25 16:12:42 darkstar MailScanner[12529]: New Batch: Scanning 1
>> messages,
>> 5835 bytes
>> Feb 25 16:12:42 darkstar MailScanner[12529]: Virus and Content
>> Scanning:
>> Starting
>> Feb 25 16:12:42 darkstar MailScanner[12529]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>> messages
>>
>> It has been going on like this for two or three days now.Why is it not
>> picking
>> them up?
>> When I took my previuos installation live it qued 10 000 messages
>> like that
>> and refused to pick them up or deliver them properly.
>> I have switched between distrebutions and perl versions but nothing.
>>
>> Anyone else seen this ?
>>
>> Mozzi
>>
>>
>>
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