Hey everyone,
I've emailed the list once with this problem and discussed it with one of
the subscribers but we never really came to any sort of conclusion. I am
running Mandrake 8.0 with qmail (installed according to LWQ) as well as
qmail-scanner as a means of protecting my users against virii. The users
all use Outlook Express as mail client software. Every now and again, I
have to reboot the qmail server because it simply stops delivering
messages. One sends an email to a user in the system, that message gets
queued and it remains in the queue. When the user checks their email, they
receive absolutely no errors. I have checked the logs and as far as I can
tell, there are no errors. The only odd thing is that when a tail -f
current | tai46nlocal from the /var/log/qmail directory, I get the
following line:
2001-07-26 09:07:52.016221500 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
So this particular log is not being updated. The only possible reason that
I can think of is that qmail-scanner bypasses qmail's traditional queue and
uses its own. So, I went to the /var/spool/qmailscan directory and did a
tail -f qmail-queue.log | tai64nlocal to check the logs there - everything
appeared to be in order. I'm also assuming that that was a valid way of
looking at qmail-scanner's log - I'm pretty new to all this.
So basically, I'm just wondering if anyone out there would have any idea
why qmail would stop delivering messages to people's mailboxes until one
reboots?
Thanks a bunch!
Michel Rondeau
