mqueue.in just gets bigger - no delivery?

[Glenn Steen]

On 31/08/06, Brett Charbeneau <brett at wrl.org> wrote:
>         Check this out, I HOPE this will tell something to somebody. Again, this
> is on a Debian box using sendmail as the MTA:
>
> drwxr-x---   5 mail  mail   4096 Aug 31 12:10 MailScanner
>
> franklin:/var/spool# ls -al MailScanner/
> drwxr-x---   2 mail mail 4096 Mar  5 20:29 archive
> drwxr-x---   6 mail mail 4096 Aug 31 15:45 incoming
> drwxr-x---   2 mail mail 4096 Mar  5 20:29 quarantine
>
>         MailScanner has been relaying messages happily with "Scan Message = no"
>         If I set it to "Scan Message = yes" and "Lock type = ", I get these
> errors
> in mail.log:
>
> Aug 31 15:49:36 franklin sendmail[20839]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot
> open ./dfk7VJLJCD018230: No such file or directory
> Aug 31 15:49:36 franklin sendmail[20839]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot
> open ./dfk7VIliaT014900: No such file or directory
> Aug 31 15:49:36 franklin sendmail[20839]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot
> open ./dfk7VIvrZp015791: No such file or directory
>
>         Even with "Lock type = flock" these still appear.
>         Any ideas?
>
('Scuse a somewhat sendmail noob (at least these days:-)) Shouldn't
that lock setting be posix for newer sendmails? Say for 8.13.x?
Obviously "flock" and setting it blank are the same, and (presumably)
wrong, in your case.

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