Troubleshooting questions

[Julian Field]

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Have you got 1 message that has been sitting in the mqueue.in for a long
time? It could just be 1 or 2 messages causing the problem, that aren't
being cleared from the queue for some reason.
Do "ls -ltr /var/spool/mqueue.in | tail" and see what the oldest files are.

jester wrote:

> I too am having the same problem. In trying to trace this problem we have
> tried turning off SA, Razor and DSPAM, and only using RBL checks and the
> mqueue.in is still continually climbing. After I restart MailScanner it
> seems to run fine and clear queue in a few minutes, but, after running
> for
> over an hour, the queue.in will climb back to over 1k (almost like
> something is dying, but no idea as to what is). I have checked razor in
> dbug and shows to be ok, same with SA. I have run MailScanner in debug
> and
> all seems fine. I have no idea what could be causing this.
>
> Using MailScanner 4.3.3
> SA 3.0.2
> DSPAM 3.2.4
> RedHat 1gig memory
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> thanks
> Michael
>
>
> At 09:03 AM 1/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Hi, thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.
>>
>> I am getting a HUGHE (40,000 ) buildup of messages in mqueue.in. In
>> reviewing the logs (/var/log/maillog), I see a lot of information about
>> MCP scanning, I have this set to "no" in my MailScanner.conf , should
>> I be
>> seeing any activity for MCP with this disabled?
>>
>> Anyone else expierience this problem? Any ideas what to look at?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Carl
>
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