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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