Sendmail, a lot of mails stuck in /var/spool/mqueue

[Zairus]

One process is Listen and other process running the queue:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m

I built sendmail with -DHASFLOCK=0 to force fcntl because Sendmail's linux
instalation recommends it for kernels 2.4 and later
(http://www.sendmail.org/compiling.html#Linux).

MailScanner uses flock, shall I change it to use Posix?


--------- Mensage Original --------
De: alex at nkpanama.com
Para: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Asunto: Re: Sendmail, a lot of mails stuck in /var/spool/mqueue
Fecha: 19/05/04 13:30

>
> File locking, other sendmail processes?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf
> Of Zairus Andersen
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6:33 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Sendmail, a lot of mails stuck in /var/spool/mqueue
>
>
> Hi,
>
> OS: Linux 2.6.5
> tmpfs mounted at /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>
> I'm having problems with sendmail (8.12.11), MailScanner (4.30.3) and
> SpamAssassin (2.63). A lot of mails (not all) are geting stuck in
> /var/spool/mqueue directory. Sendmail receives the mails and then it queue
> them normally, MailScanner processes that but Delivery was not attempted
and
> it store the mails in /var/spool/mqueue. The mails that are not stuck in
the
> queue are correctly delivered.
>
> We can see in the qf file that the delivery was not attempted:
> V6
> T1084868723
> K0
> N0
> P1137115
> Fbs
>
> Mail log:
> May 18 10:26:57 hl03 sendmail[21214]: i4I8PF7r021214:
> from=&lt;yyyyyy at yyyyyyy.com&gt;, size=1107115, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=&lt;BCCF94C0.2AE9%yyyyyy at yyyyyyy.com&gt;, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
> relay=206.Red-80-39-234.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.39.234.206]
> May 18 10:27:12 hl03 sendmail[21214]: i4I8PF7r021214:
> to=&lt;xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com&gt;, delay=00:01:49, mailer=esmtp, pri=1137115,
> stat=queued
>
> As you can see, there's no delivery attempt in the log file and if I run
> queue manually (sendmail -v -q) message i4I8PF7r021214 is not processed.
>
> Mailq entry:
> i4I8PF7r021214X 1106688 Tue May 18 10:25
&lt;grafico at graficogabinete.com&gt;
>
> Message appears to be queued because server's childrens go up to the
> MaxDaemonChildren,  I have deactivated sendmail's load check
> (LA_TYPE=LA_ZERO). In the queue runs this message never is attempted.
>
>
> OS: Linux 2.6.5
> tmpfs mounted at /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>
> Any idea about this problem?
>
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