Order in which MailScanner processes mail

[Julian Field]

Kevin Miller wrote:
> Alessandro Dentella wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>   i have a server with traffic of around 50/60.000 mail a day. Lately
>>   it is giving a great amount of problems in delay in which it
>> processes mail. 
>>
>>   Some mail stay in the queue for as long as several hours, other are
>>   delivered in a couple of minutes. That creates real problems and I
>>   cannot understand why that happens.
>>     
>
> I don't run postfix, but if memory serves, some folks have reported
> similar troubles when a corrupt file or non-queue file was found in the
> queue directories.  Sorry I can't remember more specifically, but you
> might check to see if some wayward file is in there that's choking the
> processing.  Maybe someone else that had such an issue can offer more
> details...
>   
If you do suffer from this problem, it's probably the oldest (or very 
nearly the oldest) file in the mqueue.in directory. So just sort by 
date, "cd /var/spool/mqueue.in; ls -ltr | head -30" will probably show 
you it. Still a few to go through, but it's a much shorter list than the 
whole directory :-)

Jules

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