mqueue.in just gets bigger - no delivery?

[mikea]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:01:16PM -0500, Logan Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Brett Charbeneau wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Peter Peters wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That doesn't look like quite the right command to me.  Should be
> this instead, I think:
> 
>  	sendmail -bp -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in

Yes; I use 

 sendmail -v -bp -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in

the -v flag provides a _little_ more information; without it, long 
addresses may wind up being truncated. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin