mqueue and mqueue.in pretty full

[Scott Silva]

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Dan Stromberg spake the following on 10/20/2005 4:36 PM:
> 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?
> 
Looks like you are running an older version on freebsd or solaris.
Maybe try an upgrade to a newer version and see if it tidies things up a
bit.


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