sendmail -q issue (hangs)

[HP-UX_Ali]

Hello All,

Pls advice to resolve below issue.
There are many (200) process for sendmail and while running sendmail -q hangs.

The services for sendmail restarted and now it is been stopped.but still the process is getting generated & memory utilization is 100%.


>ps -ef|grep -i sendmail
root 6528 2958 0 08:15:00 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
root 4307 1750 0 08:10:45 pts/0 0:01 sendmail: ./o6M3F0K18146: from queue
root 8407 4435 1 08:18:09 pts/1 0:00 grep -i sendmail
root 4056 1 0 08:10:09 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q30m
root 4057 4056 0 08:10:09 ? 0:01 sendmail: ./o6Q46bl29135: from queue
root 6535 6528 0 08:15:00 ? 0:01 sendmail: ./o6Q46W828469: from queue


Thanks to confirm....

[Jeeshan]

Check the maillog and see what it says

#tail -40f /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

[HP-UX_Ali]

It shows,

Jul 20 11:06:12 nodex sendmail[24817]: o6AEj0H15989: SYSERR(root): mime8to7: recursion level 21 exceeded
Jul 20 11:06:13 nodex sendmail[3776]: o6AFF0501075: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input
Jul 20 11:06:13 nodex sendmail[4927]: o6FG8Aw28075: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input
Jul 20 11:06:13 nodex sendmail[12229]: o6AEF1c00606: to=root, delay=4+17:40:27, xdelay=00:03:19, mailer=local, pri=4139578, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
Jul 20 11:06:13 nodex sendmail[6749]: o6FHamY09729: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input
Jul 20 11:06:13 nodex sendmail[20276]: o6AI00T23335: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input
Jul 20 11:06:13 nodex sendmail[12229]: o6AEF1b00606: SYSERR(root): mime8to7: recursion level 21 exceeded
Jul 20 11:06:14 nodex sendmail[11666]: o6B9j0t01706: to=root, delay=5+15:21:33, xd

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

Have you looked at the mail files in /var/spool/mqueue/?

I once had mailq flooded with messages about a bad fan and not being able to deliver them.

[Rita C Workman]

The search option here may provide the answer for you.

Take a look here and see if it applies in your case:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1116133

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Rita

[HP-UX_Ali]

Thanks Dennis,

/var/spool/mqueue was having bulk of messages. I removed all of them and found OK.
My question - if such issue arises again, is there any fix ? or any bug fix from sendmail.org.

Pls confirm

Note: Points has been assigned to you all.
Thanks

[Dennis Handly]

>/var/spool/mqueue was having bulk of messages.
>if such issue arises again, is there any fix?

In my case, root mail was locked so it just accumulated. Did you take a look at the mail to see if there was really anything important?