--Urgent Help Please--

[Matthew K Bowman]

hundreds upon hundreds of emails in /var/spool/mqueue.in

mailq -v
/var/spool/mqueue is empty

To get email to clients is it wise to copy * from mqueue.in into
/var/spool/mqueue until I get this problem resolved?

Thanks

Matthew
----- Original Message -----
From: "mikea" <mikea at MIKEA.ATH.CX>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: --Urgent Help Please--


> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:44:17AM -0400, Matthew K Bowman wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My setup
> >
> > Dell Poweredge Dual P3 1Ghz with 1GB Ram.
> > Redhat 7.3
> > sendmail 8.11.6-25.72
> > Mail Scanner 4.22-4
> > SpamAssassin 2.55
> > ClamAv 0.60
> > F-Prot 4.3.0-1
> >
> > Email is getting scanned by MailScanner for spam but sits in the queue.
My
> > /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming has:
> [snip]
> > Sendmail is running and accepting connections but its not delivering
e-mai.
> > No errors, maillog not even reporting message accepted for delivery.. My
> > other mailscanner box is running fine.
>
> What do you get when you run these commands as root:
>
> sendmail -v -bp -OQueueDirectory=<name of your inbound queue>
> mailq -v
>
> ?
>
> What's the output of
>
> ps awwux|grep -i mail
>
> ?
>
> --
> Mike Andrews
> mikea at mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin
>