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

Wed Mar 12 11:30:00 GMT 2003

At 02:27 12/03/2003, you wrote:
>I chose 6 days as beyond that, as per standard setting, sendmail would
>not deliver anyway. Thus residual files have to be broken. This is
>assuming MailScanner would probably not have as big a backlog as 5 days.
>
>Julian:
>Is it reasonable to assume that MailScanner picks up the oldest files
>for processing first?

Yes it does. It processes them in strict date order.

>Is there any way of extracting average wait time in mqueue.in so that we
>can increase number of children if need be and see if it makes a
>difference else increase Ram/ CPU Power?

I'll take a look.

>Mohan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Craig Pratt
>Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:17 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: accumulation of files in /var/spool/mqueue.in
>
>
>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
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> > Behalf Of David Closson
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:27 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: accumulation of files in /var/spool/mqueue.in
> >
> >
> > OK, I figured as much.  Thank you for the rapid response.
> >
> > We are processing about 350,000 emails a day (heavier day) with
> > MailScanner and Spamassassin.  This figure is combined in and out for
> > all of our users.
> >
> >
> > _________
> > Sincerely,
> > David Closson
> > 209-736-0111
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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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.
> >> --
> >> Julian Field
> >> www.MailScanner.info
> >> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz MailScanner
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> >
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