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Doc Schneider wrote:
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G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Some unspeakable person flooded Hotmail with spam that looked like it
came from me overnight, and I'm struggling under the onslaught of error
messages. Hotmail is pumping the messages in, and as long as the load
average is under 12 the system is accepting them, but for the most part
they're just piling up and not being delivered to the local user.
Earlier this afternoon there were so many files in mqueue.in that I
couldn't run ls to see how bad it was. I renamed the directory and
created a new one, and not it has over 12,000 files in it, which must
mean there are over 6,000 more messages waiting to be processed.
I don't really want to read them all, but I do want to get them
processed so I can read the valid mail that is certainly hidden in there.
I tried bumping the Max children from the default up to 20 to see if
that would force it to start delivering the mail, but that when my load
average hit 16 I stopped MailScanner. (I did "service MailScanner stop"
at a load average of just under 16, it didn't actually stop until the
load average had hit 25.) Obviously that wasn't the right approach, so
now I've set it down to 3 children which is keeping the memory use and
load average within reason, but it still isn't delivering any mail.
Is there something I can do to force the system to devote at least some
resources to working through the queue instead of just piling it higher?
Van
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service MailScanner stop
service MailScanner startout (this will stop all incoming mail and will
just process mail being held in mqueue.in)
HTH
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Actually, it looks to me like that just lets Sendmail process the mail
being held in mqueue. The problem is, there isn't anything there. If I
understand this correctly, it is MailScanner that takes the messages
from mqueue.in and moves them to mqueue, which is the part that isn't
happening.<br>
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I tried to modify the "start" section of /etc/init.d/MailScanner to
start both the outbound Sendmail and MailScanner, but that wasn't as
simple as I hoped. Right now I'm moving massive chunks of mail from the
mqueue.in (and backups thereof) into mqueue, then using the "startout"
option, which is working. Tedious, but it's working.<br>
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Of course, if Hotmail has another million messages for me when I start
the standard MailScanner back up I don't know what I can do about it.<br>
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Van<br>
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