mail processed but abandoned qf files in mqueue.in?

[Julian Field]

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Ken A wrote:

> I'm seeing a few left over qf files in the incoming queue. The mail is 
> being processed fine. I've tried changing flock to posix and this 
> seems to help, but I'm not sure why this is happening with a 2.6 
> kernel and sendmail 13.4x, or is this issue still around with 2.6 
> kernels?
> Just upgraded a couple MS/SA boxes to the latest MailScanner/SA on 
> Fedora Core 4.

If using sendmail 8.13.1 or upwards, you need "Lock Type = posix" on Linux.
This will make a critical difference.

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