On 30-Apr-99 Paul Farber wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I had a primary MX HDD fail, and for about 6 hours the secondary MX took
> up the slack and qued up about 300 messages.
>
> Problem is that I don't see them being forwarded now the primary is up
> again.
>
> One thing that MAY had caused a problem is that while the DNS had the
> proper MX records:
>
> f-tech.net MX 10 mail.f-tech.net
> f-tech.net MX 30 login.f-tech.net
>
> I think the secondary thought that they were it's own mail, as the local's
> file included the all of the domains that I keep mail for.
>
> I have since cleared out the locals file to just:
> localhost
> login.f-tech.net
>
> and rcpthosts has all the info for domains I get mail for. When I try and
> run the que (kill -ALRM qmail-send) all mail tries to deliver itself
> locally. I do have all the users listed in both the mail and login
> server, so if it did look for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the passwd file it would
> find it (for radius lookups).
>
> The mail log says:
>
> Apr 29 20:14:30 login qmail: 925431270.998476 delivery 215: deferral:
> Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
>
> So it's looking to put the qued mail into the local /home dirs.
Did you kill and restart qmail-send? locals are only read on startup IIRC.
I assume also if you look at the queue the mail is still there. If after
all that it still won't go, perhaps a temporary smtp route will clear it.
Vince.
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