A question about mqueue.in directory

[Steve Campbell]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hakan VELIOGLU" <veliogluh at itu.edu.tr>
To: <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 4:38 AM
Subject: A question about mqueue.in directory


> Hi,
>
> I am new with sendmail and mailscanner, and I got a question about 
> mqueue.in
> directory. Our mailgateway server is up for two weeks and it has 566 old 
> files
> in /var/spool/mqueue.in/ directory.

What version of sendmail? If it's 8.13.?, then check your "Lock Type" parm 
and make sure it's set to "posix". If sendmail is 8.12.?, set it to "flock". 
Don't assume it takes the default; I would set it manually.

Steve
>
> Is it normal? and why this happens?
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