710 messages waiting

[Mike Kercher]

Steve Hickel wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I made the change you suggested. It still processes mail. When I do a
> ls
>> ws on /var/spool/mqueue.in it say there are 2777 files. It does not
>> increase.
>
> I no longer see the batch message, but it doesn't appear to be
> processing any of the files in the mqueue.in folder. Further I see
> this message in the log:
>
> iBG2Av1c002397: [192.168.0.6] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN
> during connection to MTA on a frequent and regular basis.
>
> .0.6 is the first scanner I am using.
>
> r,
>
> Steve
>
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:04, Mike Kercher 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).
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> Steve Hickel
>>
>> I had a similar issue on machines running Sendmail 8.13.x on RHEL
>> Julian's suggestion was to use posix locking rather than the default
>> flock (in MailScanner.conf)
>>
>> Mike
>>
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More than likely these are orphans from incomplete mail transactions.  I
safely deleted all of mine.

Mike

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