accumulation of files in /var/spool/mqueue.in

Tue Mar 11 02:47:07 GMT 2003

Thanks for the tip. I've been seeing these queue files occasionally as
well.

Most recently, when I updated the sendmail access.db without restarting
sendmail/MailScanner. This seemed to cause sendmail to die during SMTP
connections - presumably due to the fact that sendmail's cached file
state didn't match the actual file.

What I'm wondering, though, is it safe to delete the files in mqueue.in
with sendmail/MailScanner running? [sounds like a potential FAQ, as
well]

Craig

On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 05:39  PM, S Mohan wrote:
> I had the same stuff. I looked up a few files and associated mail log.
> These were remnants of broken SMTP conversations. In order to clear
> these automatically, I created a daily cron job as under.
>
> Find /var/spool/mqueue.in -mtime +6|xargs rm -f
>
> I gave 6 days as sendmail will anyway abort after 5 days delivery. Thus
> files older than that anyway would be broken files.
>
> Mohan
>
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> OK, I figured as much.  Thank you for the rapid response.
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>> At 19:12 10/03/2003, you wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Using RH 7.3
>>> Using Sendmail 8.11-6
>>> MailScanner 4.13-3
>>> Using McAfee AV
>>>
>>> I have been happily using MailScanner for almost a year now and have
>>> had to remove the accumulation of files in /var/spool/mqueue.in after
>>> a month or so.
>>>
>>> I am not sure if these are messages already delivered and were not
>>> removed or ?
>>>
>>> I have had no reports of missing email.
>>
>> If they are stray files that aren't part of a matching qf / df pair,
>> then you can safely delete them. If an SMTP session into your server
>> gets interrupted for some reason, a stray file will be left behind.
>> The
>
>> server at the far end of the session knows that its message
>> transmission got interrupted and will retry anyway. SMTP is designed
>> pretty carefully to ensure things don't get lost in transit.
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