<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>"Spicer, Kevin" <Kevin.Spicer@BMRB.CO.UK></I></B> wrote:
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<P>Which queue?<BR><BR>All are in the mqueue.in<BR><BR>As I said, if you're happy to bypass MailScanner to get the mail delivered follow the instructions below.</P>
<P>Tried running your commands and received the following:</P><SPAN class=026590108-03092003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><B><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>
<P>> service MailScanner stop</P></B>
<P>Shutting down MailScanner daemons:</P>
<P>MailScanner: [ OK ]</P>
<P>incoming sendmail: [ OK ]</P>
<P>outgoing sendmail: [ OK ]</P><B>
<P>> mv /var/spool/mqueue.in/* /var/spool/mqueue</P>
<P></B>sh: line 1: /bin/mv: Argument list too long</P>
<P></FONT></FONT></SPAN><BR><BR><BR>> <BR>> "Spicer, Kevin" <KEVIN.SPICER@BMRB.CO.UK>wrote:<BR>> Can you confirm whether email had completely stopped, or whether<BR>> MailScanner just wasn't keeping up with the queue? <BR>> <BR>> If you want to bypass MailScanner to clear the backlog... (assuming<BR>> RedHat syntax) <BR>> <BR>> service MailScanner stop [wait for all MailScanner<BR>> processes to disappear after running this before moving on] mv<BR>> /var/spool/mqueue.in/* /var/spool/mqueue service MailScanner start <BR>> [restart Mailscanner toprocess any newly arriving messages, see if it<BR>> copes] sendmail -q <BR>> <BR>> [this last command will take a very long time to complete as it will<BR>> attempt to deliver each mesasge in the queue, with your backlog this<BR>> could be a considerable period of time] <BR><BR><BR><BR>BMRB International <BR>http://www.bmrb.co.uk<BR>+44 (0)20 8566
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