Re: qmail-qstat / qmail-qread

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <http://www.kampsax.k-net.dk/~rask> 
 > Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 02:41:57 +0100 
 > 
 > On 05-Dec-97 20:30:34, Paulo C. Marques F. wrote something about "qmail-qstat / qmail-qread". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus:
 > 
 > > Is it possible that qmail-qstat indicates 4 messages
 > > in the queue and qmail-qread doesn't display anything?
 > 
 > Yes, if qmail delivered those 4 messages before you ran qmail-qread or if
 > your queue directory has been corrupted.
 > 
 > Regards,

qmail-qread also doesn't display anything for me, but qmail-qstat says that
there are 5 messages:

% qmail-qstat
messages in queue: 5
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 5

I do not know if my mail queue is corrupted; I do know that messages do
get delivered eventually (after about 20 minutes).

Would directory permissions have anything to do with it?:

% ls -ltg /usr/local/qmail
total 6
drwxr-xr-x   2 robertb  qmail        1024 Mar  5 15:25 control/
drwxr-xr-x   2 alias    qmail        1024 Mar  3 10:40 alias/
drwxr-xr-x   2 robertb  qmail        1024 Dec  9 08:05 bin/
drwxr-xr-x  11 qmailq   qmail        1024 Dec  9 08:05 queue/
drwxr-xr-x   2 robertb  qmail        1024 Dec  9 08:05 users/
drwxr-xr-x  10 robertb  qmail        1024 Dec  9 08:05 man/
% ls -lgd /usr/local/qmail
drwxr-xr-x   8 robertb  qmail        1024 Dec  9 08:05 /usr/local/qmail/

How about file permissions?:

% ls -lutg /usr/local/qmail/bin | head -20
total 462
-rwsr-xr-x   1 qmailq   qmail       10596 Mar  5 15:55 qmail-queue*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 robertb  qmail       20564 Mar  5 15:55 qmail-smtpd*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 robertb  qmail       14768 Mar  5 15:55 tcp-env*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 robertb  qmail        4900 Mar  5 15:52 qmail-getpw*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 robertb  qmail       23912 Mar  5 15:52 qmail-local*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 robertb  qmail       22828 Mar  5 15:52 qmail-remote*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 robertb  qmail        7744 Mar  5 15:52 preline*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 robertb  qmail         239 Mar  5 15:47 qmail-qstat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 robertb  qmail       13196 Mar  5 15:40 qmail-qread*

(As you can see, I've been living with this mail delivery delay problem for
a while.)

qmail is started up in rc.M:

        env - PATH="/usr/local/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
	csh -cf 'qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail &'

Any advice would be appreciated.

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