> Can you isolate it to a single file in the queue that the server is hanging
> on?  You might try moving all of the queued files to another directory and
> moving them back a few at a time to isolate a potential cause.
>
> Once the smtp service is stopped and restarted, everything in the queue
> gets sent out with no problems.

I thought everything was going out for me, too, after I restarted smtp. But 
there's always the old log files and such hanging around, so I moved 
everything older than today to another directory. Then I noticed there are 
some week-old messages hanging around in there. Some of them have many sets 
of declude headers in them, too! That can't be good.

I think I'll follow the advice and move them back one at a time. If one of 
them crashes smtp, I'll have found the culprit. 

> Would looking at the syslog and seeing what the first message is that hangs
> help?

I turned on debugging info today, maybe that will help. I haven't found 
anything from scanning the logs so far.

> Have you figured out a workaround other than constantly monitoring the smtp
> service at all hours of the night to make sure it doesn't hang?

I write a little script that checks the size of the queue and emails me (via 
another mail server) when the number of files increases. I thought about 
having it stop and start the service automatically, but I'd really like to 
solve the problem, so I've avoided doing that.

I'll post anything I find out.

Dave


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