Problems with inbound mail queue

[Julian Field]

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As you are running Sendmail 8.13.1 or newer, make sure your "Lock Type = 
posix" in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf. Do you have a load of 
sendmail processes running storing the incoming messages? The "Found x 
messages waiting" shows the number of complete and incomplete messages 
in the queue, so if a load are still being delivered to you then that 
number can be quite large. The number it then actually scans is shows by 
"Scanning y messages", which shows you how many complete messages are 
there, in its view.

If you stop the incoming sendmail listener process, does the number stay 
at 239? or does it gradually drop? If it stays the same then something 
is wrong. If it slowly drops then you just had a lot of messages being 
delivered to you at the same time, which is fine.

Grant wrote:

>I am not sure if this is a mailwatch or mailscanner problem, so I am
>posting it to both forums.
>I am having a considerable amount of emails building up in the inbound
>mailq.
>As of this morning there are 238 messages in there. There does not seems
>to be anything wrong with the messages, some are spam and others are not.
>They do not appear to have been processed at all, just hanging around in
>the queue.
>Mailscanner sees the messages, but does not process them. Here is a
>snippet of Logs;
>Aug 29 07:34:48 europa MailScanner[22046]: New Batch: Found 239 messages waiting 
>Aug 29 07:34:48 europa MailScanner[22046]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 3335 bytes 
>Aug 29 07:34:49 europa MailScanner[22046]: MCP Checks: Starting 
>Aug 29 07:34:49 europa MailScanner[22046]: MCP Checks completed at 3335 bytes per second 
>Aug 29 07:34:49 europa MailScanner[22046]: Spam Checks: Starting 
>
>
>I read some other posts about this and some people are just deleting
>them and purging the from the DB, but this does not seem to be a
>"solution" but a way to manage the problem. 
>Does anyone know what the "fix" is? This problem did not start until I
>upgraded to Mailwatch 1.0.2 and MailScanner 4.4.6-1. It was installed
>from RPM on Redhat 9 running Sendmail 8.13.3-1. Mailwatch is running
>with Apache 2.0.52 and php 5.0.3-1.
>
>Any ideas, anyone?
>
>-
>Thank you,
>Grant Della Vecchia
>System Administrator
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