We had this problem earlier this year and it turns out that qmail-clean
stopped running for some reason. Check and make sure it's still up and
running...it cleans the old stuff out of the queue.
--Kevin
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Kevin Sawyer - President/CEO - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applied Personal Computing, Inc. - APCiNet - http://www.apci.net
6001 Old Collinsville Road, Building #3, Fairview Heights, IL 62208
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Porreca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 8:00 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mail Queue Just Keeps Growing....
>
>
> Folks,
>
> I have a problem with my qmail system. We've been running
> mail for almost a
> year now with no major incidents to report.. until now.
>
> Our mail queue started filling up yesterday and mail delivery
> seemed to have
> slowed down to a crawl.. (It took hours to deliver messages.)
> I see a very
> cyclical load average on the machine ranging from .45 to 2.3,
> up and down
> every 2-3 minutes or so. The mail queue itself (which is
> usually around
> 60-80 megabytes large) has grown to 300 megabytes in the past
> 24 hours. The
> machine itself does not seem to be struggling in any way, but
> the queue just
> will not flush out. There does not seem to be any (much)
> spam throughout
> the mail queue, and there is no steady stream of large
> messages from any one
> peticular source.
>
> I was hoping that the queue would flush out last night when
> it was about 250
> megabytes, but barely any messages got delivered and it's up
> to 300 megs
> this morning.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be happening on
> my mail server?
> Thank you everyone for your help!
>
> - Chris
>
> Christopher Porreca
> Systems Administrator
> N e t A c c e s s , I n c .
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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