OTish - Mail stuck in mqueue

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Howard Robinson [mailto:howard at harper-adams.ac.uk] 
> Envoyé : 14 avril, 2004 09:56
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : OTish - Mail stuck in mqueue
> 
> 
> Hello list members
> 
> We run MailScanner on a gateway that forwards internal email 
> to a novell
> system. Two unusual machine errors have happened, one during the week
> when the Mailscanner Machine crashed due to a UPS fault and 
> the second over
> weekend the Novell servers bombed.
> As soon as I restarted the MailScanner gateway and corrected 
> a few faults on
> /var email started flowing. Same again after the weekend when 
> the Novell
> servers were restarted, email flowed again.
> However there are 4000 emails 'stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.
> I have had a look and there are about 40 starting with Q the 
> rest are df or qfs (in
> pairs ~4000 each) plus 3 tf files.
> Looking through the archives I came across this snipped bit --
> ---
> If the mail is in qf* and df* files, then the next time the 
> queue is run by
> sendmail it will all get sent. If they have been renamed to 
> Qf* then you will
> need to rename them back again. -- Julian Field
> --- end of snipped bit
> So they should be on there way as sendmail (via MailScanner) 
> is running.
> Mail is going in and out but these 4000 are not moving.
> I noticed that whilst all are owned by root some are in the 
> root group and some
> in smmsp group (not sure why). Also I had a look at a random 
> selection of the
> q files and they all contained connection refused or deferred 
> messages - many
> but not all from when the Novell was down.
> It's now a good 36 hours since the novell system was restarted.
> What can I do to send these on their way & will the deferred 
> ones eventually go?

Have you tried sendmail -q -v

?

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> Regards
> 
> Howard Robinson
> (Senior Technical Development Officer)
> Harper Adams University College
> Edgmond
> Newport
> Shropshire
> TF10 8NB UK
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