MailScanner not processing mqueue.in

[Ugo Bellavance]

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John Hinton wrote:

> After battling server overload one morning after finding our T-1 had
> been down for about 7 hours, I managed to break MailScanner's ability to
> process the mqueue.in messages.
>
> What I did. I had shut down MailScanner (MailScanner-mrtg restarted it)
> and started Sendmail to reduce the processing. I also dumped the RBL
> lists. Seems I was doing a lot of fighting with not very good results.
>
> Anyway, I seached the archives and couldn't seem to hit upon the right
> word combo to find any good info on this. But can someone direct me
> toward what I have broken? The mqueue.in directory is catching all the
> inbound mail and even though everything appears to be right in my
> MailScanner config file, it is refusing to process those emails. If I
> move them on mqueue, Sendmail works its way through them just fine.

OS?

Anything weird in your logs?

>
> Thanks,
> John Hinton
>
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