mail delivery problems

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Sat Feb 25 18:39:19 GMT 2006


Richard Edge spake the following on 2/22/2006 12:55 PM:
> I am suddenly have mail delivery problems and am seeing entries like the
> following in the error logs:
>  
> Feb 22 12:07:56 mx10 MailScanner[12767]: Could not chdir to
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/6108/9A64E768.33D42 just before unpacking
> extra message parts 
> Feb 22 12:07:56 mx10 MailScanner[12767]: Could not chdir to
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/6108/74AC3778.E24D9 just before unpacking
> extra message parts 
> Feb 22 12:07:57 mx10 MailScanner[12767]: Could not chdir to
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/6108/60AF5B40.A5500 just before unpacking
> extra message parts 
> Feb 22 12:07:57 mx10 MailScanner[12767]: Could not chdir to
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/6108/748607DD.66194 just before unpacking
> extra message parts
>  
> What could be causing this and is it related to my email delivery problems.
> It was reported to me by one of our users that there seem to be long delays
> in email delivery. When checking mx10.twu.ca this morning I grepped the logs
> for 'New Batch' and though it was reporting that messages were being found
> and processed and the number of new messages changed regulary at the time I
> checked this morning it was reporting about 800+ messages being found. After
> the report I received I checked again and see that there are now 1700+ plus
> new message found and the number keeps increasing. PS does not report any
> orphaned or defnct processes and I can find any errors in the other system
> logs. 
Has anything been done on this machine lately to change permissions on
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/?
 Is there a very large message clogging up the incoming dir? Especially if it
is mounted to tmpfs.
  Low on space or inodes?

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