mqueue.in just gets bigger - no delivery?

[Brett Charbeneau]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Logan Shaw wrote:

LS> So, to me the next step is to kill the incoming sendmail. That will prevent 
LS> *it* from putting more messages in the queue. Then, barring anything truly 
LS> weird, there is no other software other than MailScanner that would know to 
LS> put messages into that queue.  So if the incoming sendmail is off and the 
LS> number of messages in the queue grows, you know MailScanner is adding them.  
LS> On the other hand, if incoming sendmail is killed and the number of messages 
LS> in the queue then starts shrinking, you know it's a backlog thing.

	Good idea!
	Okay, at 1:38 I killed Sendmail and MailScanner, then started 
MailScanner (via /etc/init.d/mailscanner) - MailWatch shows

Inbound   51
Outbound   2

	and here's a count of the files in the queues:

ls -al /var/spool/mqueue | wc -l
58
ls -al /var/spool/mqueue.in | wc -l
54

	I checked to make sure MailScanner had children running throughout this 
test.
	At 1:43:

Inbound   51
Outbound   1

ls -al /var/spool/mqueue | wc -l
58
ls -al /var/spool/mqueue.in | wc -l
54


	At 1:48:

Inbound   50
Outbound   1

ls -al /var/spool/mqueue | wc -l
58
ls -al /var/spool/mqueue.in | wc -l
54

	At 1:58:

Inbound   50
Outbound   1

ls -al /var/spool/mqueue | wc -l
58
ls -al /var/spool/mqueue.in | wc -l
54


	Hope this is revealing...

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