mqueue and mqueue.in pretty full

[Scott Silva]

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Dan Stromberg spake the following on 10/20/2005 12:43 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!
> 
The first thing you could try would be to set debug =yes and if you use
spamassassin debug spamassassin = yes
in /etc/MailScanner/mailscanner.conf
and then run check_mailscanner
should dump a bunch of useful info to stdout.
Look for any errors.
 Remember to set the debug statements back to no

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