Rick,
I looked in /var/qmail/queue/mess/ and found a message left lying around
that looked like it was never going to be deleted by qmail-clean. I manually
rm'ed the document in question and now qmail-qstat and qmail-qread are now
reporting the same thing.
-Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 22:56
Subject: Re: PROB. SOLVED -- qmail-qstat and qmaill-qread differences...
> On May 19, 2000 at 20:40:26 -0400, Martin Gignac twiddled the keys to say:
> > Think I've figured out what was wrong. Read about queue-cleaning in the
> > INTERNALS document that comes with qmail and I believe the problem is
that a
> > big email got stuck at the beginning of the queue while I was shutting
down
> > the system (I didn't leave time for qmail-send to exit properly). I
guess
> > preprocessing on the message never finished. According to INTERNALS, it
> > should be cleaned up automatically within 36 hours.
>
> I don't normally reply here, but since noone else has.... :)
>
> I have a qmail-check script that runs qmail-qstat and qmail-qread and
> mails it to me. It's always reported one more mail in the queue than was
> actually there. For years I thought it was just because I opened the
> pipe to qmail-inject before running the other programs. I just never
> looked back to see.
>
> Looking back now, that's not the case. While I have have no idea why
> qmail-qstat reports one more than actual, I don't find it any sort of
> bother. I've never experienced any sort of woe due to it, nor do I
> expect to.
>
> Rick Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ----------------------------------------------------
> The Feynman Problem 1) Write down the problem.
> Solving Algorithm 2) Think real hard.
> 3) Write down the answer.
>
