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Subject: Re: Thousands of messages stuck in incoming/
From: Brad Knowles (blkskynet.be)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 16:48:16 CDT

At 11:25 PM +0200 2000/4/5, Brad Knowles wrote:

> postcat: warning: ./0/3/0325718B33: unexpected EOF in data, record
>type 78 length 76
> postcat: fatal: record read error
> postcat: warning: ./7/6/762EC181BF: unexpected EOF in data, record
>type 78 length 76
> postcat: fatal: record read error

        Nope, this doesn't explain it. I've only got 13 of these on this
machine, and yet it has several thousand messages backlogged in the
incoming queue.

        Sigh.... This is getting very confusing, and very annoying.

        I'm starting to run out of steam -- I haven't had anything to eat
in about seven or eight hours.

        I'm going to try one last thing (to take a look at the recipient
domains and see if that might be the cause of the problems), and then
I think I'm going to bail out of here and just hope and pray that the
system holds itself together until tomorrow, when I can start taking
another look at it again.

        I will say that this job is made significantly more difficult by
the lack of good tools to slice-n-dice the queue in a variety of ways.

        For example, it would be very convenient to have a program that
can parse the mail queue like mailq does, and then does the proper
magic on the appropriate files to allow you to delete all messages
to/from addresses matching certain patterns -- and do so while the
system remains running.

        Or one that can process the mail queue and give you stats on
unique senders, recipients, and their respective domains and how many
mail messages are in the queue for/from them, etc....

        Same thing for cleaning out mail messages that have the sorts of
"fatal read errors" as demonstrated above. 

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