processing backlog

[Paul Kelly :: Blacknight]

Hi,

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 22:26 -0600, Doc Schneider wrote:
<snip>
> What happened was my main mail server dropped a drive in its RAID array 
> and I had to replace it and then rebuild the raid. So there's now like a 
> couple days worth of mail sitting on my old slow secondary server that 
> needs to be processed. I did turn off the "outgoing" while the mail 
> server was down. But at this rate it is going to take a month to get 
> through all the mail sitting there.... and intermixed with the good mail 
> is the spam crap that always hits my secondary server...
> 

stop the mta on both boxes.

tar up /var/spool/mqueue.in/ on slow secondary. Untar on fast primary.
Restart MTA's (obviously remove the mail from the old box)

Paul

> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> -Doc
> Lincoln, NE.
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