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

[Furnish, Trever G]

> mv /var/spool/mqueue.in/* /var/spool/mqueue
> sh: line 1: /bin/mv: Argument list too long

That just means there are two many files in the directory to do them all at
once - the "*" is getting expanded to all the filenames.  Try this instead:

for file in `find /var/spool/mqueue.in -type f`;
do
    mv $file /var/spool/mqueue
done

Be sure you get the quotes right aound the find command - they're
"backticks", ie backwards apostrophes, not double-quotes or apostrophes.

-----Original Message-----
From: lester lasad [mailto:llasad1 at YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:50 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mail Not Routing, stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in




"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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