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

[Julian Field]

Morning all,

Appears you are all having a similar problem.
Are you running 4.23-11 or 4.23-10? If -10 then upgrade to -11.

What does your maillog say is happening?
         grep MailScanner /var/log/maillog | tail -70

What processes are running?
         ps ax | grep -i mail

What have you changed from your previously-working system?


At 09:49 03/09/2003, you wrote:


>"Spicer, Kevin" <Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK> wrote:
>
>Which queue?
>
>All are in the mqueue.in
>
>As I said, if you're happy to bypass MailScanner to get the mail delivered
>follow the instructions below.
>
>Tried running your commands and received the following:
>
> > service MailScanner stop
>
>Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>
>MailScanner: [ OK ]
>
>incoming sendmail: [ OK ]
>
>outgoing sendmail: [ OK ]
>
> > mv /var/spool/mqueue.in/* /var/spool/mqueue
>
>sh: line 1: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
>
>
>
>
> >
> > "Spicer, Kevin" 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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Julian Field
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