I had this very thing happen to me before. The root cause was that I
had a user who created a procmailrc file that had gone nuts. Delievery
to that user was failing every time and for some reason the queue would
stop processing after the failure.
Anyway, the solution to get the queue working again was to manually
delete the control and mail file from the queue.
-andy
Jens Hafner wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just found that my courier-mta is not or forwarding any emails anymore. It seems
>to accept the input from my client (e.g. Outlook) but the mails never reach their
>destination. I can't remember any incident that could have caused this. I started my
>search for a solution in my syslog file and found the following:
>
> ---------%<---------------%<----------------%<------------------%<------------------
> $cat /var/log/syslog
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Loading STATIC transport module libraries.
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Courier 0.37.3 Copyright 1999-2000 Double Precision,
>Inc.
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Installing [0/0]
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Installing uucp
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Installed: module.uucp - Courier 0.37.3 Copyright
>1999-2000 Double Precision, Inc.
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Installing local
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Installed: module.local - Courier 0.37.3 Copyright
>1999-2000 Double Precision, Inc.
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Installing esmtp
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Installed: module.esmtp - Courier 0.37.3 Copyright
>1999-2000 Double Precision, Inc.
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Installing dsn
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Installed: module.dsn - Courier 0.37.3 Copyright
>1999-2000 Double Precision, Inc.
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Initializing uucp
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Initializing local
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Initializing esmtp
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Initializing dsn
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Started ./courieruucp, pid=11894, maxdels=4,
>maxhost=4, maxrcpt=16
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Started ./courierlocal, pid=11895, maxdels=10,
>maxhost=4, maxrcpt=1
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Started ./courieresmtp, pid=11896, maxdels=40,
>maxhost=4, maxrcpt=100
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Started ./courierdsn, pid=11897, maxdels=4,
>maxhost=1, maxrcpt=1
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: queuelo=200, queuehi=400
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Purging /var/lib/courier/msgq
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Purging /var/lib/courier/msgs
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: ABNORMAL TERMINATION BY A SIGNAL
> Jul 16 15:51:03 fner courierd: Will restart in 60 seconds.
> $
>
> ---------%<---------------%<----------------%<------------------%<------------------
>
> In addition I found that stopping courier-mta brings up the following error message:
>
> ---------%<---------------%<----------------%<------------------%<------------------
> $ /etc/init.d/courier-mta stop
> Stopping Courier SMTP server: done.
> Stopping Courier mail filter: done.
> Stopping Courier mail server:/etc/init.d/courier-mta: line 79: 11870 Alarm cloc
> ${sbindir}/courier stop
> $
> ---------%<---------------%<----------------%<------------------%<------------------
>
> Has anyone any idea what is going on? What additional information would be helpful?
>Is there a mailinglist archieve that I could research on? I'm using Debian 2.2
>(Potato) and tested courier 0.37.3-3 and 0.37.3-7. Thanks for your help
>
> Jens
>
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