>My mailserver running qmail-1.03 has started creating lots of
>qmail-queue processes to the point where it chokes any incoming email. I
>have gone through the log files and cannot find anything that looks
>funny. I see a huge amount of zero size files in the queue/mess/*
>directories with no corresponding info or local or remote files.
Sean,
Could it be broken SMTP clients or servers sending bare LFs? I've had a
similar problem - see my thread starting on 23rd July, entitled,
Solaris / DoS / Broken bare LF mailers / thousands of qmail-smtpd&qmail-queue procs
..In my case, fixing bare LFs sorted out the problem - using fixcr or fixcrio.
For what it's worth, a reminder of using fixcr - aimed primarily at
archive users who come across this message a month/year etc.
ahead and want to see if this might fix similar issues for them...
- on the normal tcpserver line for qmail-smtpd, replace
qmail-smtpd
with
sh -c "fixcr | qmail-smtpd"
I presume for fixcrio you'd just need
fixcrio qmail-smtpd
cheers,
Andrew.
