mqueue.in just gets bigger - no delivery?

[Brett Charbeneau]

	Thanks for weighing in, Peter!

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Peter Peters wrote:

PP> > 	I let it run yesterday for several hours and my Inbound queue just kept 
PP> > getting bigger. I know what you mean on chugging along, though.
PP> > 	I'm think the SpamAssassin timeouts were revealing and Alex Broens' post 
PP> > on the redundant rules may have solved the problem.
PP> 
PP> Do a grep -i "New Batch" on your maillog. I will show sets of two lines.
PP> One line telling you how much messages MS thinks is in the queue and how
PP> much he is going to process.

Here ya go:

franklin:/var/spool# tailmail | grep -i "New Batch"
Aug 31 09:37:29 franklin MailScanner[22258]: New Batch: Found 122 messages 
waiting 
Aug 31 09:37:29 franklin MailScanner[22258]: New Batch: Scanning 10 messages, 
75798 bytes 
Aug 31 09:38:53 franklin MailScanner[22487]: New Batch: Found 125 messages 
waiting 
Aug 31 09:38:53 franklin MailScanner[22487]: New Batch: Scanning 3 messages, 
27060 bytes 
Aug 31 09:39:22 franklin MailScanner[22493]: New Batch: Found 128 messages 
waiting 
Aug 31 09:39:22 franklin MailScanner[22493]: New Batch: Scanning 3 messages, 
27490 bytes 
Aug 31 09:39:53 franklin MailScanner[22507]: New Batch: Found 129 messages 
waiting 
Aug 31 09:39:53 franklin MailScanner[22507]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 
3678 bytes 
Aug 31 09:40:33 franklin MailScanner[22507]: New Batch: Found 129 messages 
waiting 
Aug 31 09:40:33 franklin MailScanner[22507]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 
16175 bytes 
Aug 31 09:40:56 franklin MailScanner[22526]: New Batch: Found 128 messages 
waiting 
Aug 31 09:40:56 franklin MailScanner[22526]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 
4351 bytes 
Aug 31 09:41:02 franklin MailScanner[22512]: New Batch: Found 128 messages 
waiting 
Aug 31 09:41:02 franklin MailScanner[22512]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 
16178 bytes 

PP> You can also use /usr/sbin/sendmail
PP> - -QQueuedirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in a few times to see whether the
PP> files you find in your mqueue.in are actual complete df/qf pairs or
PP> reminants of dropped connections.

	Now THAT'S a handy command.
	But I can't get it to complete on my machine. I reniced it to -15 and 
let it chew for almost 20 minutes - no output.


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