Orphans in mqueue.in

[Michael Cloutier]

I have seen several people post that have q files in mqueue.in that are
orphans. I have not yet seen an answer for why this is happening. I have
seen someone suggest that the mail is waiting to be delivered but that is
not the case. There is no corresponding body to the q file. They just
slowly build up until I delete them. I have no complaints of mail being
missed so I believe that they were successfully delivered. If anyone has
something I can check about this I would appreciate it. This is starting
to make me nervous. I have had this problem since I first installed
MailScanner about 3 months ago. It has stuck with me through 2 upgrades of
Mailscanner/Spamassassin/ClamAV.

This is what I see in the log file:
Apr 15 09:13:15 fire MailScanner[15555]: New Batch: Found 466 messages
waiting
Apr 15 09:13:15 fire MailScanner[15555]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
12056 bytes


MS 4.29.7-1
Sendmail 8.12.6
Spamassassin 2.63
ClamAV 0.70-rc

Thank you,
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Michael Cloutier
Director of Information Systems
Samaritan Healthcare