Random messages stuck in mqueue

[Scott Silva]

Corey McFadden spake the following on 7/31/2007 9:46 PM:
> 
> Guys,
> 
> We're experiencing an issue on one of our boxes where messages (a good
> percentage) are hung in /var/spool/mqueue after being processed by
> MailScanner.  Even those to be delivered locally will sit for
> (sometimes) hours until they're finally delivered.
> 
> I've never seen this behavior before and something is definitely awry.
> 
> Here's the environment:
> 
> This is CentOS release 4.5 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
> 
> This is MailScanner version 4.61.7
> 
> Executing 'sendmail -q -v' WILL process the stuck messages but can take
> quite a long time to run because it will try to deliver everything
> queued in a linear fashion.
> 
Since it is in mqueue and not mqueue.in, mailscanner is pretty much out of the
loop. Check if you have a FQDN that resolves properly as this will choke
sendmail quickly. Also try a local caching nameserver, as sendmail might be
taking a long time to resolve delivery addresses.

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You hope everybody uses it, and
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