mqueue and mqueue.in pretty full

[Dan Stromberg]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 16:21 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> Dan Stromberg spake the following on 10/20/2005 3:29 PM:
> > 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!
> > 
> Post a copy of the output from MailScanner -V. Maybe it will give a clue.

Alas:

        meter-root) ./bin/MailScanner -V
        Cannot open config file -V, No such file or directory at /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Config.pm line 400.
        meter-root) 

Any further suggestions?

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