Hi There, I use sendmail and fetchmail for Emailing along with pine - everything (read pine/sendmail) is configured to handle mail thru a dial-up connection. I had a problem recently - All my emails are being directed to the wrong ppl. After tht, I just went thru the /var/spoll/mqueue - (of course for the new mails) there are some files starting with d/q followed by numbers with correct combinations of Email headers and body. I assumed that files starting with q inside /var/spoll/mqueue were headers and those starting with d were data ie. body of the email. There is another file startng with T. Shud that be there?? Now, wot cud the reason be tht sendmail mixed up my emails??I am a novice WRT sendmail :) Bye, SP
On Jul 8, 2001 at 09:23, Kompalli SuryaPrakash wrote:
After tht, I just went thru the /var/spoll/mqueue - (of course for the new mails) there are some files starting with d/q followed by numbers with correct combinations of Email headers and body. I assumed that files starting with q inside /var/spoll/mqueue were headers and those starting with d were data ie. body of the email. There is another file startng with T. Shud that be there??
Huhuhuh? df* are data and qf* are headers, as you figured correctly. The numbers are the same as what you see with mailq, and if you do raw SMTP, "Message accepted, queued as [number]" (something like that).
But I've never seen T*.
xf* is a kind of lockfile thing while the message is being delivered.
Sometime Today, Kompalli SuryaPrakash assembled some asciibets to say:
assumed that files starting with q inside /var/spoll/mqueue were headers
^^^ that's spool
and those starting with d were data ie. body of the email. There is another file startng with T. Shud that be there??
No, can't think of any file starting with T. What's in it? There should be files starting with x. These are control files (or locks), which basically tell other sendmail processes that that particular message is currently being processed.
Now, wot cud the reason be tht sendmail mixed up my emails??I am a
There may be some aliasing rules that you've set that's messing things up. Check /var/log/maillog to see who the mails are going through. In fact, monitor this log as you send mails (tail -f /var/log/maillog)
Philip
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