mails stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Julian Field]

If the files for a particular message id are quite old and particularly if
the df file is 0 bytes, then just delete the files for that message id.

They are usually left-overs from an incoming SMTP connection that broke
half way through.

At 12:45 23/06/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have MailScanner installed with SpamAssassin on a Cobalt RaQ 550.
>MailScanner works great, except that I see mail in /var/spool/mqueue.in stuck
>there from time to time.
>Any idea what these mails are, I sometimes do a restart of MailScanner if I
>make changes to the conf file.
>
>The version of MailScanner I am running is 4.14 Release 9
>The version of sendmail is 8.11.6
>
>Here is what my logs show.
>I really dont know why these mails are stuck here.
>
>Here is my mqueue.in dated May 23
>
>-rw------- 1 root root 245760 May 23 12:21 dfh4N6pCB12556
>-rw------- 1 root root 9 May 23 12:21 xfh4N6pCB12556
>-rw------- 1 root root 1416 May 17 22:16 dfh4HGjUi00744
>-rw------- 1 root root 5325 May 17 22:16 dfh4HGkCi01105
>-rw------- 1 root root 0 May 17 22:12 dfh4HGggi32313
>-rw------- 1 root root 131107 May 17 18:48 dfh4HDIVL32457
>-rw------- 1 root root 0 May 7 13:44 dfh478Eme24576
>-rw------- 1 root root 9 May 7 13:44 xfh478Eme24576
>-rw------- 1 root root 466944 May 7 12:07 dfh476Zue18696
>-rw------- 1 root root 276 May 7 12:05 xfh476Zue18696
>-rw------- 1 root root 0 May 4 00:01 dfh43IVEo21411
>-rw------- 1 root root 9 May 4 00:01 xfh43IVEo21411
>
>Can anyone help me.
>
>Regards,
>Keith

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