queue gets backed up frequently

[Chris W. Parker]

Mike Kercher <mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET>
    on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:18 PM said:

> Do you have any users on your box that may be running crons under
> their UID on these days?

no because there are no other users.

> What do your maillogs show on the days these backups occur?

i wouldn't know what to look for.

although i can tell you that on these days when the queue gets clogged
i'll watch the maillog with 'tail -f'. the odd thing that i see is that
mailscanner doesn't run at all for a long time. there aren't any
messages about mailscanner not being able to process the messages, or
errors or anything like that. simply, mailscanner just doens't run until
a certain period of time when it will process all the queued mail in a
matter of minutes.

> Is it
> possible you are being used as a relay?

i supposed it's possible but i don't know how to check for this. i would
suspect that if i were in fact being used as a relay i'd see this more
regularly. but that's just an assumption.

how can i determine whether or not i am being used as a relay?



thanks,
chris.