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

[Spicer, Kevin]

lester lasad wrote:
> This is for incoming mail. On average I receive 15-20 thousand
> incoming emails a day.  Right now I have roughly 2000 messages in the
> queue, so MS has been routing mail but it is very slow.  Doesn't seem
> to want to catch up.   

Which queue?

How many in mqueue
How many in mqueue.in

As I said, if you're happy to bypass MailScanner to get the mail delivered follow the instructions below.


> 
> "Spicer, Kevin" <Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK> wrote:
> Can you confirm whether email had completely stopped, or whether
> MailScanner just wasn't keeping up with the queue? 
> 
> If you want to bypass MailScanner to clear the backlog... (assuming
> RedHat syntax) 
> 
> service MailScanner stop              [wait for all MailScanner
> processes to disappear after running this before moving on] mv
> /var/spool/mqueue.in/* /var/spool/mqueue service MailScanner start   
> [restart Mailscanner toprocess any newly arriving messages, see if it
> copes] sendmail -q 
> 
> [this last command will take a very long time to complete as it will
> attempt to deliver each mesasge in the queue, with your backlog this
> could be a considerable period of time]  



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