710 messages waiting

[Steve Hickel]

Neil,

I won't be able to check it until later. What is "la?"

R,

Steve

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 15:53, Errol Neal wrote:
> Don't know if this has been mentioned, but check the load on the system.
> If you have sendmail configured to only queue mail when the la reaches a
> certain number (but continue to accept messages for processing), then
> that could lead to this problem where you may have a queue that is
> backed up.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Steve Hickel
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 3:09 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: 710 messages waiting
>
> Thanks. Will check.
>
> Steve
>
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 15:02, Julian Field wrote:
> > Check they all have their df file as well as their qf file. If they
> > have no df file, you can just delete them.
> >
> > Steve Hickel wrote:
> >
> > >Denis,
> > >
> > >My bad. I did the original message from memory. Here is the actual
> > >message. I don't believe it is a sendmail issue, but could be wrong.
> > >I think I have 710 messages stuck in the in queue. Mailscanner
> > >appears not to be processing them. Sorry for the confusion.
> > >
> > >Steve
> > >
> > >New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 4455 bytes  Dec1514:33:51
> > >-MailScanner
> > >
> > >New Batch: Found 710 messages waiting
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 14:04, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Steve Hickel wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>All,
> > >>>
> > >>>I notice in my maillog viewer that I have 710 messages waiting but
> > >>>then it only processes a few messages. Not sure how to kick those
> > >>>710 messages loose. Any thoughts? (they got then when I took my
> > >>>exchange box off-line for a few minutes).
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>Steve,
> > >>
> > >>If you are using sendmail, try: sendmail -qRsearch_string (and put a
>
> > >>part of the destination addresses where search_string is).
> > >>
> > >>Denis
> > >>PS: they should be automatically be processed at some point but the
> > >>command above will process them immediately.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
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