mqueue.in just gets bigger - no delivery?

[Carl Andrews]

I recently setup a MS computer on ubuntu on my home computer and had the
same problem. I do not remember EXACTLY what the corrective procedure
was, but I believe it was permissions. This was my first attempt at
postfix, so I too was wielding a sledge hammer :->

/var/spool
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root        7 2005-12-28 18:56 mail -> ../mail
drwxr-x---  5 postfix  postfix  4096 2006-08-03 18:31 MailScanner
drwxr-xr-x  2 mail     mail     4096 2006-08-08 00:59 mqueue
drwxr-xr-x  2 smmta    smmsp    4096 2006-08-07 23:14 mqueue.in
drwxr-xr-x 19 root     root     4096 2006-08-07 23:23 postfix

/var/run
drwxr-sr-x 5 root       smmta       100 2006-08-29 23:20 sendmail


I also had to do this for the MS to run and not get errors in
(mail.log) 
mkdir -p /var/run/MailScanner
chown -R postfix: /var/run/MailScanner

mkdir -p /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner
chown -R postfix: /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner/



If I can provide any more information or you would like me to set you up
an account on the computer so you can compare, please let me know.

Thanks,
Carl




On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:19 -0400, Brett Charbeneau wrote:
> 	Drat.
> 	Alex Broens's suggestion on the redundant rulesets was right on the 
> money, but my Inbound queue continues to grow.
> 	I let MS run for a good 20 minutes and even mail sent to myself just got 
> stuck in the queue and was not delivered. Meanwhile the queue continued to 
> grow:
> 
> Aug 30 11:51:26 franklin MailScanner[3228]: New Batch: Found 46 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 11:53:06 franklin MailScanner[3228]: New Batch: Found 47 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 11:55:39 franklin MailScanner[7997]: New Batch: Found 51 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 11:57:10 franklin MailScanner[8046]: New Batch: Found 53 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 11:57:31 franklin MailScanner[8031]: New Batch: Found 54 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 12:00:45 franklin MailScanner[8383]: New Batch: Found 61 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 12:01:51 franklin MailScanner[8449]: New Batch: Found 65 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 12:02:51 franklin MailScanner[8449]: New Batch: Found 63 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 12:05:46 franklin MailScanner[9034]: New Batch: Found 67 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 12:05:59 franklin MailScanner[9139]: New Batch: Found 68 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 12:10:20 franklin MailScanner[9175]: New Batch: Found 81 messages waiting 
> Aug 30 12:13:35 franklin MailScanner[10652]: New Batch: Found 106 messages waiting
> 
> 	When I tail mail.log it certainly *looks* like messages are getting 
> scanned, just not delivered.
> 	Any other kind souls have suggestions on where to look for my goof? I'm 
> scratching my head here...
> 
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