Mail Not Delivering

[Scott Silva]

Glenn Steen spake the following on 11/11/2006 12:08 PM:
> On 11/11/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>> Mailing Lists spake the following on 11/11/2006 9:33 AM:
>> > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 17:10 +0000, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>> >> Mailing Lists wrote:
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> Yesterday my mail stopped getting to the in-boxes. I am using
>> sendmail
>> >>> and MailScanner 4.23.11. when I stopped MailScanner, and just started
>> >>> sendmail, things get delevered fine, however, during the time it
>> was not
>> >>> delivering  mail, I sent myself a bunch of test emails, and I
>> never got
>> >>> them at all. It seems that I have lost mail!
>> >>> What happened to that mail? will it be delivered eventually?
>> >>>
>> >>> One clue that I noticed in /var/log/messages:
>> >>> Nov 10 15:45:32 pipe named[1928]: lame server resolving
>> >>> '205.78.168.68.relays.ordb.org' (in 'relays.ordb.org'?):
>> >>> 206.154.202.54#53
>> >>>
>> >>> I will appreciate any help on this...
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks!
>> >>> Rick
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> wow, thats really really old code you got running there - three
>> years at
>> >> least.
>> >>
>> >> check the inbound, and outbound queues to see if they are there..
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Martin Hepworth
>> >> Senior Systems Administrator
>> >> Solid State Logic
>> >> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>> >>
>> >
>> > Forgive me for not knowing much about this. but I looked in
>> > the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/ directory. there are a few
>> > directories there but no files at all. Is this the right place to look?
>> > were are the inbound and outbound directories?
>> >
>> > Right it is old! I installed it back when it was new as a rpm. The
>> OS is
>> > RedHat 9. Now is seems there is no rpm for it. Is there any good docs
>> > that step me through an upgrade?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Rick
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Go to www.mailscanner.info  there are links to the current code, and
>> lots of
>> docs. The current rpm install is actually several src.rpms and the
>> mailscanner
>> rpm in a tarball. You unpack the tarball in some working directory and
>> run an
>> install.sh script. It will update any code you need fixed, and give
>> you some
>> instructions at the end.
>>
> One could also point a helping finger to the MAQ and the rest of the
> wiki (both contain partly overlapping instructions for how to go about
> the upgrade(s) necessary). You'll find them from the documentation
> page on www.mailscanner.info;-).
> 
> Another thing to consider is if it isn't time for a more Alexanrian
> cut, so to speak, to solve this Gordian knot:-):-)... If MailScanner
> is that old, so is probably every part of the system. Perhaps time for
> a fresh start?
> 
> Anyway, the queues Martin is alluding to are the mqueue.in and mqueue
> ones (usually found in /var/spool).
> 
I guess I'm not the only one working today!

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