Batch Constantly Growing in Size Issue

[Ugo Bellavance]

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>> Bjorgen T. Eatinger wrote:
>>>  
>>> For unknown reason, my mail server started getting way behind in 
>>> processing messages in the MailScanner batch, and the amount waiting 
>>> just keeps growing and never decreases, but about 10 to 20 messages 
>>> per day.
>>>  
>>
>> Probably since the last upgrade?  did you fix the lock type? 

By lock type, I mean look at your MailScanner.conf file for this section:

# How to lock spool files.
# Don't set this unless you *know* you need to.
# For sendmail, it defaults to "posix".
# For sendmail 8.12 and older, you will probably need to change it to flock,
# particularly on Linux systems.
# For Exim, it defaults to "posix".
# No other type is implemented.
Lock Type = posix

Make sure it is ok for your mta.

>> If you 
>> did, then maybe you should clean up your mqueue.in.
> 
> I used
> 
> find /var/spool/mqueue.in -type f -mtime +2 -print
> 
> to display orphaned files and
> 
> find /var/spool/mqueue.in -type f -mtime +2 -print | xargs rm -f
> 
> to delete them.
> 
>>
>>> Aug 31 09:24:16 mail MailScanner[5531]: New Batch: Found 453 messages 
>>> waiting
>>> Aug 31 09:24:16 mail MailScanner[5531]: New Batch: Forwarding 1 
>>> unscanned messages, 36314 bytes
>>>  
>>> Is anyone else experiencing this and/or know what this is all about 
>>> and how to resolve it?
>>>  
>>> I've searched the Internet for answers for more than 1 month with no 
>>> success.  I did try using the debug feature, and got zero results (no 
>>> issues).
>>>  
>>> I also tried searching the Archives and FAQs, also with no results.
>>>  
>>> Please help!
>>>  
>>> Thank you, Bjorgen Eatinger
>>>
>>
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