mails stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Keith Fernandez]

Thanks Julian,

What if the df is not zero, what do I do?

Regards,
Keith
> 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