Chris Johnson wrote:
> 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.
Right. It's not quite as easy to read as sendmail - that's all. I
wasn't matching up the "starting delivery <number>" with the "delivery
11: deferral" bits. Now things are a bit clearer.
> > 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
That's what was up! I had prw------ ! Thank you!
John
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