[KLUG Members] Stuck qmail queue.

[Adam Bultman]

Merry Christmas, everyone.  

I have a question.

I have a qmail server here that gets quite a bit of traffic.  The 
partition which holds the queue and log files was too small, and 
therefore, I was constantly having to remove log files, so I moved the log 
files, and parts of the queue, to another larger partition.  From what I 
see, all the file permissions are correct.

Everything goes well for a while, but I notice that my queue keeps getting 
larger, as does my number of un-preprocessed messages.  I know that qmail 
holds undeliverable mail in its queue (I can account for all 1000 of those 
queued messages) but I can't account for the growing unprocessed ones.

If I stop and restart qmail (svc-stop, svc-start), the queue will run down 
a ways, including unprocessed ones, then stop shy of it's goal.  

The logs for qmail don't give me a reason to believe that things are 
failing, it just *does*.  I'm thinking of moving my queue back, but I'm 
not sure that will help, either (as it will fill up that partition 
anyway).

Any pointers?  I haven't tried using queue-fix yet, but this is getting 
annoying - I can't tell if my test messages are getting through or not (I 
keep restarting qmail :/)

Adam

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