Several messages in the incoming queue are not being sent

[Dustin Baer]

Diego M. López wrote:

> Many thanks for the advice,
>
> Does this solve the problem?

Diego,

It depends on the exact problem.  If you have a lot of df (body) files 
with no corresponding qf (header) file, then they will never get 
delivered anyway.

What do the following commands commands give:

    ksh print "qf - \c" && ls -l /var/spool/mqueue.in/qf* | wc -l
    ksh print "df - \c" && ls -l /var/spool/mqueue.in/qf* | wc -l
    ksh print "other files:" && ls -l /var/spool/mqueue.in/ | grep -v ^[qd]f

> I mean, what about the messages that stay in the queue and never are sent?

You should first determine if it is truly a full message that is stuck 
in mqueue.in

> I have tested this and I can see that several messages enter the queue 
> but never are  transferred to the users' email server.

Okay, so you are sending test messages that get into 
/var/spool/mqueue.in and never leave?  If you grep for the the Sendmail 
id in your email logs, what is the result?

Dustin

-------------------------- MailScanner list ----------------------
To leave, send    leave mailscanner    to jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk
Before posting, please see the Most Asked Questions at
http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/     and the archives at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html