Some mail (up to 7 days old) is stuck in /var/spool/mqueue

[Mike Kercher]

What would happen if you change your lock to posix, stop MailScanner,
COPY the qf/df pairs to /var/spool/mqueue.in and restart MailScanner?

Mike
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Chris W. Parker
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:48 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Some mail (up to 7 days old) is stuck in 
> /var/spool/mqueue
> 
> Yes. There is are 23 pairs of emails in /var/spool/mqueue 
> (last time I checked a few hours ago).
> 
> 
> Chris.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	derek [mailto:derek at adcatanzaro.com]
> Sent:	Wed 7/26/2006 6:54 PM
> To:	MailScanner discussion
> Cc:	
> Subject:	Re: Some mail (up to 7 days old) is stuck in 
> /var/spool/mqueue
> 
> Chris W. Parker wrote:
> > Mike Kercher <mailto:mike at vesol.com>
> >     on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 2:17 PM said:
> >
> >   
> >> What does mailq say?
> >>     
> >
> > mailq says this:
> >
> >                 /var/spool/mqueue (21 requests)
> > -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
> > ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
> > k6JIfxwS020007X  629066 Wed Jul 19 11:41 <mm at ar.com>
> >                                          <ma at sw.com>
> >                                          <bd at sw.com>
> > k6OFsrYc027614X    1303 Mon Jul 24 08:54 <sw at ya.com>
> >                                          <nd at sw.com> 
> k6KF8jTP031339X  
> > 727037 Thu Jul 20 08:08 <tc at sc.com>
> >                                          <bd at sw.com>
> ---snip---
> 
> Have you checked /var/spool/mqueue to make sure there is a 
> corresponding "d" and "q" file for the email?
>