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RE: Messages stuck pre-processed
Thanks for the insight. Is the big-todo patch part of netqmail-1.05? I'm
not sure how I would have ended up with folders for the patch if I didn't
have it, as I didn't move or recover the queue, but that's a good start.
While this is a bit of a rookie question, I want to be sure I do everything
correctly, so what exact steps would I take to apply the big-todo patch to
my current netqmail-1.05 setup? It seems even when qmail isn't running,
it's accepting mail, which may be the issue here, so I need to be sure I get
things shut down enough to do the patch and not get any more email stuck. :)
Again, thanks for your help!
Peter Janett
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Kitchen [mailto:kitchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:12 PM
To: qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Messages stuck pre-processed
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 04:55 pm, Peter Janett wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Thank you SO much for responding.
>
> We didn't actually restore the queue after the crash, we did a fresh
> install. No other patches, just netqmail.
>
> A few days after the fresh install, qmail-send was not working. We
> tracked it down to a permission and qmail group id miss-match. The
> messages stuck preprocessed seem to get stuck when we turn off
> qmail-send. Qmail send is working, however, as new messages get
> through fine, but those that are stuck remain where they are. There
> may be others stuck in the main queue, it's hard to say as there are
> always plenty of messages in there, but the preprocessed number always
> stops dropping at 1132, which is why I say they are "stuck".
>
> My log says:
> @4000000041880b6a081ac694 warning: unable to stat mess/0/0
[snip]
> ALL THE WAY UP TO
> @4000000041880c61100bfe7c warning: unable to stat mess/22/22
looks like a big-todo style todo directory without the big-todo patch
installed.
What's the output of 'ls -l /var/qmail/queue/todo' ?
*cough* I should read further!
> Here's the output of queue/todo
> ls -ls /var/qmail/queue/todo/
> total 104
> 16 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 16384 Nov 1 21:49 0
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 1
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 21:49 10
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 11
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 12
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 13
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 21:49 14
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 21:49 15
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 21:49 16
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 21:49 17
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 21:49 18
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 19
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 2
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 20
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 21
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 22
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 3
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 4
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 5
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 6
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 7
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 07:45 8
> 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Nov 1 21:49 9
either install the big-todo patch (recommended but not absolutely necessary)
or shut off qmail-send and remove those directories. If they have mail in
them, it's probably best to install the big-todo patch and go on with it.
The big-todo patch is nothing but helpful, and shouldn't cause any
performance degradation.
-Jeremy
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