Large number of messages in mqueue.in

[Joe Smith]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Andrews Carl 448 wrote:

> I am searching the archives now, but searching for mail and queue on an
> email server list .... lots of messages.
>
> Any one else have the problem where thousands ( 40,000 currently ) of
> messages are in /var/spool/MailScanner/mqueue.in ? Or any idea on what I can
> do to push them through or troubleshoot?

I have one running 4.36.4 that is up to 72,000 in mqueue.in right now. I
don't know what happened, it has been keeping up the last week or so.  I
did bump my 'max children' to 10 about a week ago and that helped it, but
something has gone haywire today.  I just shutdown inbound sendmail while
I look at it.

This box is 2 ghz pentium, 1 gb RAM, 80 gb hard drive.

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