mqueue.in just gets bigger - no delivery?

Brett Charbeneau brett at wrl.org
Thu Aug 31 23:54:43 IST 2006


Quoting DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com>:

>avhost2# ls -la
>drwxr-xr-x  13 root   wheel    512 Aug 28 12:33 .
>drwxr-xr-x   5 root   wheel    512 Feb  9  2005 ..
>drwxr-xr-x   5 root   wheel    512 Jul 17 12:48 MailScanner
>drwxrwx---   2 smmsp  smmsp    512 Aug 31 14:23 clientmqueue
>drwxr-xr-x   2 smmsp  smmsp    512 Aug 29 17:54 milter-ahead
>drwxr-xr-x   2 smmsp  wheel    512 Aug 31 16:18 milter-greylist
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root   daemon   512 Aug 31 16:20 mqueue
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root   wheel   1536 Aug 31 16:20 mqueue.in
>
>avhost2# ls -la MailScanner/
>drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel   512 Jul 17 12:48 .
>drwxr-xr-x  13 root  wheel   512 Aug 28 12:33 ..
>drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel   512 Aug 31 16:22 incoming
>drwxr-xr-x   9 root  nobody  512 Aug 31 06:01 quarantine
>
>The only change I have made over a stock install is to change the group
>ownership on the quarantine for MailWatch.
>
>Seems odd that without scanning MS works, but with scanning it does not.
>Either way it is having to move files from incoming to outgoing
>queues.

>I would have reinstalled by now, you could be hours ahead at this point.


    My fault  didn't mention it, but: have reinstalled. Twice, actually.
    Even restored the system partition from backups.
    And you're right, scanning or no scanning MS *still* has to pick stuff up
and lay it back down, which makes this goofiness that much more of a mystery.


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