many thanks to: Steve Sandau for his suggestion to check first the queue for connectivity and dns errors. basically, this is what i got after running sendmail -bp. perhaps a cronjob will delete all messages with dates of 5 days and will eliminate unwanted mails. Thanks steve. RGDS Chris -----Original Message----- From: Steve Sandau [mailto:ssandau@bath.tmac.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:44 PM To: Alba, Christian [NCSSG NON J&J] Subject: Re: /var/spool/mqueue Before you do anything, you should probably run 'sendmail -bp' and see *why* they're still in the mail queue. Might be a DNS or connectivity problem. "Alba, Christian [NCSSG NON J&J]" wrote: > > Dear Gurus, > > I notice that smtp mails in /var/spool/mqueue on our smtp servers are > getting stuck in there, some of which are 3 to 4 days old. > And sometimes mails from internal are getting stuck there and sendmail stops > working. I read one article in google suggesting to put them > in a temp folder and search it for corrupted mails (df******, qf*******) and > those with 0 bytes and delete them. And then run an adhoc sendmail > pointing to the temp folder. Is there any patch that can resolve this, or > scripts available to check the mqueue of corrupted mails on regular basis? > > My smtp servers are ultra 10 boxes in solaris 2.6 platform. Thanks in > advance. > > Regards, > Christian Alba > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers -- Steve Sandau ssandau@bath.tmac.com _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Dec 4 22:57:10 2001
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