mqueue and mqueue.in pretty full

Dan Stromberg strombrg at DCS.NAC.UCI.EDU
Thu Oct 20 23:29:54 IST 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:03 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> 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

I set both of these to yes, but when I run check_mailscanner, I still
get:

meter-root) ./bin/check_mailscanner
MailScanner running with pid 11315 10652 49
meter-root) 

Thanks!

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