topic Re: mailq in Operating System - HP-UX

mailq

Tan Shirley — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:58:17 GMT

Hi,

Anyone ever encountered mailq which displayed the mail with a size of -1 ?

For example
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -Q-Time- --Sender/Recipient-
JAA27164* -1 Wed Sep 3 09:40 root
user@abc.com

Thanks !

Re: mailq

Steven Gillard_2 — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:30:33 GMT

That will happen if someone removes df* files from the /var/spool/mqueue directory without removing the corresponding qf* files. Sendmail (mailq) stats the df* file to get the size - if this file doesn't exist it reports -1.

If you remove qfJAA27164 from /var/spool/mqueue (or wherever sendmails queue directory is) that item will no longer appear on the mailq output.

Make sure all files corresponding to a mail message are deleted when doing cleanup in this directory.

Regards,
Steve

Re: mailq

Tan Shirley — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:35:18 GMT

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your prompt reply!
However, according to my colleague, he sent the mail and immediately issued the mailq command several times. No manual deletion of any files.
Any other possibilities?
Thanks !

Regards,
Shirley

Re: mailq

Steven Gillard_2 — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:51:05 GMT

A few other questions / thoughts:

* How was the mail message sent? Did it have a valid body? Is this problem happening on all messages?

* Any full file systems?

* Any errors in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log?

Regards,
Steve