Invalid qf files

[Julian Field]

At 02:05 24/03/2004, you wrote:
>I'd like to revisit the invalid qf files issue if I may.  At this moment
>I've got four in my /var/spool/mqueue.in directory, each of which is
>considered invalid because there is no /^R/ line.  I'm not sure how to go
>about finding the cause of this.
>
>On the flip side, would it be possible to change the logging behaviour
>somehow?

Certainly. Instead of logging an error for every invalid qf file, it will
make 1 log entry for each batch listing the queue ids of the invalid
messages (if there are any).

This should greatly reduce your log traffic if you have several invalid qf
files.

This same change applies to the other MTAs as well.

>   Each of the MailScanner processes is logging an error for each of
>the invalid qf files every five seconds.  So with the default of five
>MailScanner processes and only a single invalid queue file I'm getting an
>average of one error per second entered into the log file.  I'm sure you can
>see why this could very quickly lead to log bloat with even a small number
>of invalid files.

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Julian Field
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