Orphaned, undelivered files in mqueue.in

[Remco Barendse]

The thought crossed my mind, and it may not even be unlikely. I think I
found the cause of the problem. The time stamp of the orphaned files is
about the same as these messages in the maillog:
Jan  9 21:20:15 raveon MailScanner[30971]: MailScanner child caught a
SIGHUP
Jan  9 21:20:15 raveon MailScanner[30946]: MailScanner child caught a
SIGHUP
Jan  9 21:20:25 raveon sendmail[31137]: alias database /etc/aliases
rebuilt by root
Jan  9 21:20:25 raveon sendmail[31137]: /etc/aliases: 66 aliases, longest
10 bytes, 658 bytes total
Jan  9 21:20:25 raveon sendmail[31146]: starting daemon (8.12.5): SMTP
Jan  9 21:20:25 raveon sendmail[31151]: starting daemon (8.12.5):
queueing at 00:15:00
Jan  9 21:20:26 raveon MailScanner[31162]: MailScanner
Jan  9 21:20:27 raveon MailScanner[31162]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.11-1 starting...
Jan  9 21:20:28 raveon MailScanner[31162]: Using locktype = flock

But.... no reference to receiving any e-mail. I think sendmail is in the
process of receiving the e-mail, which is not finished, hence no entry in
the maillog and then MailScanner kills and restarts sendmail??

Or does the sighup mean that something has crashed? I seem to have an
awful lot of those :(

Every 5 minutes!!!!

If the sender's connection isn't all that fast it is very well possible
that the mail transfer indeed gets killed before transmission is
completed.

I never had this SIGHUP problem with 4.10?

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> It is possible that you merely got them for non-MailScanner related
> problems, such as an SMTP client getting cut off half way through sending a
> message. Sorry if that sounds like I'm passing the buck...
>
> At 17:17 09/01/2003, you wrote:
> >This was the first thing I have checked. I took different parts of the
> >numbers of these df files and grepped the maillog for it. Strangely enough
> >I cannot find them. Also when browsing through the maillog and looking
> >around the same date/time as these orphaned files in some cases there
> >isn't any message whatsoever of mail being delivered / received.
> >
> >I have about 10 orphaned files in the mqueue.in, none in the outdir and
> >they are all from yesterday and this morning. I know for sure that I
> >didn't restart MailScanner last night or this morning. It's hardly
> >possible that MailScanner would restart itself at exactly the same time as
> >these 10 e-mails in 1,5 day? (This is a very low volume home server).
> >
> >On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Julian Field wrote:
> >
> > > At 16:08 09/01/2003, you wrote:
> > > >Ever since I upgraded to MailScanner 4.11-1 yesterday I have several
> > > >orphaned files that are piling up in mqueue.in
> > > >
> > > >The only files sitting there are the df files, without any other files.
> > > >Also these messages have never been delivered to the intended recipient.
> > > >
> > > >Any ideas??
> > > >
> > > >Can I still get these df files delivered or extract them to make them
> > > >readable?
> > >
> > > Check both your /var/spool/mqueue and your maillog to see if the message
> > > ids have already been delivered (or at least placed in the outgoing queue).
> > >
> > > I thought I had fixed this in 4.11, but obviously not well enough.
> > >
> > > Do the times on the files correspond to times when you have done a
> > > MailScanner "reload" or "restart"?
> > > --
> > > Julian Field
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> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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> Julian Field
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