Yeas, killed and restarted every qmail- I could find. Even tried the
smtproutes with .f-tech.net:mail.f-tech.net and stil sitting with 300+ in
the queue and netstat -a says nothing's moving.
Paul D. Farber II
Farber Technology
Ph. 570-628-5303
Fax 570-628-5545
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> 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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