Mail stuck in mqueue.in, help!

[Max Kipness]

>
>>Can someone give me some pointers on how to troubleshoot what the
>>problem might be as mail is being held up for several domains right
>>now!
>>
>>You might start by looking in your maillog? Shutdown MailScanner and
>>your mta, run tail on it and see what happens when you start it up.
>
>I deleted and rebuilt the aliases file. It still take a while
>with newaliases.
>
>time newaliases
>/etc/aliases: 74 aliases, longest 77 bytes, 1280 bytes total
>
>real    0m45.089s
>user    0m0.047s
>sys     0m0.006s
>
>Ok if I shutdown MailScanner, then start back up I do get a
>message about /etc/aliases beeing rebuilt by root, and then I
>get this in the maillog:
>
>Sep  3 11:34:28 manhattan MailScanner[1815]: New Batch: Found
>523 messages waiting Sep  3 11:34:28 manhattan
>MailScanner[1815]: New Batch: Scanning 30 messages, 306400 bytes
>
>This message never comes up again, like it's not trying
>again...strange.
>
>Nothing else unusual that I see in the logs.
>
>I'm looking at the MAQ now.
>
>Any other suggestions?

Another interesting tidbit is that everytime I restart the MailScanner
service, a few emails are scanned and delivered.

Max

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