Urgent help needed: mailscanner not processing mail

[Ron E.]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Ron E. wrote:
>
> > This is urgent, for anyone who may see this and has any ideas on a
> > workaround -
> >
> > I am running MailScanner 4.21-4 and Postfix on RH9. All has been well for
> > months.
> >
> > A few hours ago MailScanner stopped passing any messages to my mta - the
> > number of messages in postfix.in/deferred continues to rise - restarts of
> > mailscanner and a server reboot have not rectified the situation.
> > Occasionally some mail gets passed to my mta but very little and the
> > backlog continues to mount. Also numerous entries in the maillog that say
> > things like:
> >
> > Nov  4 03:41:16 smtp postfix/qmgr[2196]: BF97D160A3D: skipped, still being
> > delivered
> >
> > Any ideas would be welcome.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Ron
> Have you stopped and restarted postfix?
>

Definitely - thanks for the suggestion - but that was one of the first
things.

> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic Ltd
> tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
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