Mail Not Routing, stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Furnish, Trever G]

You really ought to start a separate thread for separate questions - this
has little to do with mail being stuck in the incoming queue.

Having said that, you don't need a secondary server - you just need to move
the messages from the incoming queue to the outgoing queue.  In a typical
redhat+sendmail install that means that you move the message from
/var/spool/mqueue.in to /var/spool/mqueue.

Where are you going to get the original message though?  By the time your
"special user" can identify the message for you, it's already been
delivered.  It sounds like you want to quarantine the messages (as queue
files) and enable the quarantine cleaning cron job.

-t.


-----Original Message-----
From: lester lasad [mailto:llasad1 at YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:48 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mail Not Routing, stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in


question,  I have a secondary MS server, there are a few emails that our
VP's need with attachments.  Once I locate these emails in
/var/spool/mqueue.in can I copy them to to the other servers mqueue.in?
Never done it, if anyone has I would like to know (and how did you do it?)

Kevin Spicer <kevins at BMRB.CO.UK> wrote:

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 22:16, lester lasad wrote:
>It seems to be kicking in after restarting MS a few times, but it seems
>to stop after about a few minutes. I have been restarting but this
>can't be the solution. Thanks for the suggestions.

Are you running the very latest MailScanner? IIRC there is a bug in the
Denial of Service Protection Code which has just been fixed (I think
Julian posted a patch to the list, as nows not the time to be
upgrading!)

If you get desperate, you said you weren't virus scanning with MS, just
turn MS off, start up sendmail (the regular standalone way) and dump the
contents of mqueue.in into mqueue [mail & spam is better than no mail,
just]. Then have another shot with MS when its quieter (if theres a
particular message causing problems this would also get it out of the
system.)





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