mqueue and mqueue.in pretty full

[Mike Kercher]

MailScanner mailing list <> scribbled on Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:43 PM:

> I have a system running mailscanner, that has:
> 
>         meter-root) pwd
>         /var/spool/mqueue.in
>         meter-root) ls | wc -l
>         769
>         meter-root) cd ../mq
>         mqueue@     mqueue.in@  mqueue.old/
>         meter-root) cd ../mqueue
>         meter-root) ls | wc -l
>         1026
>         meter-root)
> 
> ...which seems excessive.
> 
> If this were a mailscannerless system, I'd just do
> /usr/lib/sendmail -bp and/or /usr/lib/sendmail -v -q, and
> perhaps some telnet'ing to the SMTP port and sniffing to see
> what's wrong.
> 
> But what does one do when the flow of mail is clogged on a
> mailscanner system?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

What is the timestamp on the files?  Are there matching df/qf pairs?  These
may be leftovers from incomplete SMTP sessions.

Mike

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