Problems with inbound mail queue

[Mike Kercher]

MailScanner mailing list <> scribbled on Monday, August 29, 2005 6:40 AM:

> 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

I would start by looking at a filename in you mqueue.in and then grep your
maillog to see if that message has or has not been processed.  Do you have
your lock type set to posix in MailScanner.conf?

Mike

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