Orphans in mqueue.in

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Michael Cloutier
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:45 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Orphans in mqueue.in
>
> 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.

"Oprhaned" queue files can be caused a number of things, system crashes,
dropped connections after the start of data transmission - all of which are
sendmail and not MailScanner related.

A couple of scripts to remove them:

http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2003-March/038827.html
http://www.patoche.org/LTT/daemon/00000073.html

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

> 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,
> --
> Michael Cloutier
> Director of Information Systems
> Samaritan Healthcare
>
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