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

[Julian Field]

At 21:31 03/09/2003, you wrote:
>I am running MailScanner 4.21-9

This means that it isn't a problem with the latest release, 4.21 is from
back in June.

Is it processing all the messages in the queue with each new batch, or are
you getting the maillog reporting that it found a large number of messages
waiting, but then only started scanning a few of them? In that case, it's
because a lot of the messages are still being delivered to you.

If you could actually submit a chunk of your log showing what (if anything)
is happening, then I can try to see what's going on.

>The maillog is just queueing up the messages, it is routing but not a a
>good rate (bad performance).  I would run the command but the server that
>was having problems is not up, switched over to another server.
>
>Same as above for the second output request.
>
>I have not changed anything
>
>Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>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" 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 sendma! il: [ 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 e! ach mesasge in the queue, with your backlog this
> > > could be a considerable period of time]
> >
> >
> >
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