On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 02:14:36PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
>
> For some reason, qmail seems to be taking a long time (perhaps forever) to
> deliver certain mails. Some mails seem to sit in the queue for ages, and I
> can't work out how to discern why they are being delayed. It may be that the
> destination host isn't there - but I can't tell that. Sendmail was always
> nice enough to tell me if mails were being delayed...how can I get qmail to
> tell me what's up ?
Check the logs.
> Second, when I run a fetchmail, to get mails from a very remote host,
> it dumps them in the local queue (fetchmail connects to port 25 locally,
> for delivery). qmail-qstat shows them sitting there, and they are never
> delivered - until I do something like "/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail.init
> restart" - and then they are delivered inside a second.
Check the permissions on /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger. They sould look like
this:
prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Nov 11 09:38 /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger
Chris
