Orphan files in /var/spool/mqueue.in

Chris Conn cconn at abacom.com
Fri Nov 24 22:33:35 GMT 2006



Nathan Olson wrote:
>> From http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.7.php
> 
> "If a timeout occurs while reading a message (during the DATA phase)
> a df file might have been left behind in the queue.
> This was another side effect of the changes to the I/O
> layer made in 8.13.6."
> 
> Nate

I have a sendmail 8.12 on a few systems where I am seeing this problem, the 
locktype is not defined; I will try and force it to flock....

Chris


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