Messages Waiting

[Julian Field]

At 23:08 04/03/2003, you wrote:
>When MailScanner restarts I get a lot of messages waiting, yet my mailq
>is more or less empty.
>
>So what are these waiting messages?
>
>Mar  4 22:34:47 www mailscanner[2604]: Startup: found 345 messages
>waiting

You may well have loads of orphaned files in mqeue.in. You can safely delete
1) anything old
2) any df files without matching qf files
3) any qf files without matching df files
4) any xf files
But make sure sendmail isn't running when you do this.
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Julian Field
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