Mails Stuck in mqueue.in?

[Mike Kercher]

Scott Silva <> scribbled on Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:17 AM:

> Mike Kercher wrote:
>> I've been seeing this behavior on just one of my MS boxes.
>> Periodically, the same emails get scanned over and over and over.
>> They are always HS Spam and my HS Spam action is delete.  For some
>> reason they just never get removed from mqueue.in:
>> 
>> j59CMh4H026742 actions are delete
>> 
>> These end up driving the load on the machine to over 5.x and the box
>> starts to crawl.  I'm using MS 4.41.3-1, SA+sql, Sendmail-8.13.4,
>> sophossavi and clamavmodule.  OS is RHEL 3U4.  Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
> With Sendmail 8.13 the first thing to try is changing the locking to
> posix from flock in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf 
> 


I've been using posix ever since I first went to 8.13.x  Thanks though!

Mike

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