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

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> I'm starting to suspect that something besides MailScanner may be the
> cause of this mysterious problem.
>
> We have a new install of MailScanner that has been chugging nicely along
> since Sunday. All of the sudden between 10 & 11 AM EDT the "New Batch:
> Found ***** messages waiting" started creeping rapidly up. until it
> reached about 15,000 around 2:00 PM. I've been closely monitoring this
> server since Sunday and it's never had more than 200 messages queued
> before. It's no powerhouse, a 1 GHz Pentium with 512 MB RAM but it was
> chugging nicely along until today.

I am suspecting this all along, but will be hard for Julian to catch this
since it seems hard to reproduce at his end.

The strange thing is that i was able to reproduce it with the zip i
sended Julian on two other boxes also... <snifff>

Bye,
Raymond