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

[Julian Field]

Without login access to somebody's machine which is *reliably* suffering
from this problem, I'm a bit stuck.

At 10:17 04/09/2003, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
> > But it may well be a completely different problem in your case.
> >
> > The thing is, it appears to have just started affecting people running
> > a) various different versions of MailScanner
> > b) on various different platforms
> > c) it was never a problem before some very recent change in circumstances
>
>Could be.
>
> > This really points to it being a problem outside of MailScanner, as
> > otherwise people would have surely noticed it before? The biggest changes
> > in circumstances recently are the arrival of some very virulent worms and
> > the death of osirusoft. If you are 100% sure you aren't ever checking
>
>I personally have a feeling its the format of some messages, perhaps some
>messages that are causing delays due to the way they are builded ? TNEF
>stuff ect ect. I can imagine a lot of things that direction. Even if i
>disable RBL and not run SA at all it seems to happen. I have it also on a
>server (new one) where SA isnt even installed.
>
>Or perhaps a virus, but still ...
>
> >  From what you say, we are talking about at least 2 different problems,
> > yours and the one I have just seen. Maybe there are more than 2?
>
>Could be, but its a pain to live with. =)
>
>Bye,
>Raymond.

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Julian Field
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