mqueue.in just gets bigger - no delivery?
Matt Hampton
matt at coders.co.uk
Wed Aug 30 22:49:01 IST 2006
Brett Charbeneau wrote:
> 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
>
/etc/init.d/MailScanner stop
/usr/sbin/MailScanner --debug
what is the output?
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