Sendmail Upgrade

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Mar 24 09:10:38 GMT 2006


On 24 Mar 2006, at 09:04, Paul Houselander wrote:

> Hi
>
> I upgraded sendmail on my Fedora Core 2 system to 8.13.6, I was on  
> 8.12.....
>
> Ive noticed this morning that Mailscanner is saying
>
> "New Batch Found 150 messages waiting"
>
> and doesnt seem to decrease.
>
> I took a look in /var/spool/mqueue.in and can see I have lots of qf  
> files
> with no matching df.
>
> I thought this could be due to my "Lock Type" setting in  
> MailScanner.conf, I
> have it set to
>
> Lock Type =
>
> and the comments say it defaults to posix which should be ok for 8.13?

That's all quite correct.

The orphaned qf files are no use to you, so you might as well delete  
them and clean up your queue.
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