Mail stuck in mqueue.in, help!

[Mike Kercher]

Max Kipness wrote:
>> 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?
>

74 aliases is NOTHING.  That should hash to db in the blink of an eye.
What's the load on your system?  What are the system specs?

Mike

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