MailScanner or Sendmail dropping the ball? (fwd)

[Julian Field]

Run a
         sendmail -v -q
and see what actually happens when it attempts delivery of your outgoing queue.

At 18:33 24/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hello All
>
>I am resending this to the list with a different subject line as the first
>may have led to some confusion. I have looked through the faq and also
>googled for an answer but cannot find one.
>
>At this point in time I now have over 8000 emails that are sitting in
>mqueue not being delivered. I do have queue runners trying and I am also
>trying from the command line.
>
>I do not know what else to do and have lost a lot of sleep over this.
>
>
><Original Message>
>
>
>I recently noticed a problem that I really don't know what the cause is.
>We are running sendmail 8.12.10 on solaris 9, Mailscanner 4.27.7 and SA
>2.63
>
>It appears as though a lot of email is just sitting in the queue and not
>being delivered. By the queue I mean mqueue not mqueue.in MS and SA have
>already worked their magic and all we need now is delivery
>
>
>When I try and run the queue I show that there are 200 or so messages and
>the queue starts running, but when I do a sendmail -bp there are actually
>over 3000 emails. I have tried everything and every switch and debug
>switch in the bat book but still these emails will not go. Some are as old
>as a week, some are only a few hours old.  Also some emails are bounces,
>some are for virtual domains on or system and some are for our regular
>members.
>
>What am I missing here?
>
>Rick

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