From: Charles Gregory (cgregoryhwcn.org)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2006 - 13:28:16 CST

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On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> User 05 .forward runs a command that never terminates....

.forward contains 'user05host6.hwcn.org', which is how it is forwarded
to host6 for spam checking. This is true of all users, and works fine.

> .... or some process is holding a lock on user 05's mailbox, ...

How could I find the mail lock and determine which process 'owns' it?
I deleted a 'user05.lock' in the /var/spool/mail directory, and was even
able to deliver a message directly via sendmail to the mailbox on host4.

I manually cleared some spam from the host6 queue and I noticed several
pieces of the 'stuck' mail went through, then it 'hung' again. So I've
just deleted some more and flushed the queue. Somehow, it is content
dependent. And still stuck. All the remaining messages inthe queue look
legit. So I'm not sure where to go now. Need to find that lock....

- Charles

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