Bill Crowley wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems that delivered messages as staying in the queue. 7 days later queue
> mail is giving up "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the
> queue too long."
>
> I know that 99% of these messages have been delivered successfully so I am
> not sure why they are not purging from the queue.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> B
Lemme think here. If I'm not mistaken, the user that modifies the queue
is qmailq who owns the qmail-queue program. Now, on my installation of
qmail (and so I assume everyone elses) the qmail-queue program's
permissions are: -rws--x--x . So, bascially, the qmail-queue program
executes as root to modify the queue, therefore, permissions on the
queue directory shouldn't matter. What group is your qmailq user in?
What is his home directory? What are the permissions on your
qmail-queue binary? and what does your run file for qmail look like?
My best guess (if you hadn't deduced here) at this point is that the
permissions aren't right somewhere for the qmail system to make the
necessary changes the the queue; but there are a plethora of other
possibilities. =)
--
Keith
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies, Inc.
