Qmail queue and sendmail hassels
 

I've just completed the QMR installation but I have a few problems with the final installation.

OK - On my Slackware 10 box, I have a new installation of Qmail running. It can recieve mails alright, but when it comes to sending them, they seem to get stuck in the mail queue.

<snip>
root@linux:/# qmailctl queue
messages in queue: 1
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
21 Feb 2005 17:43:16 GMT #814044 220 <[From address]>
remote [To address]
</snip>

That mail has been sitting there for almost 24 hours. The qmail-send/current error log is constantly growing in file size. When I opened the log, it was 1026 lines of the same thing. When I closed and reopened, it was 1078 etc.
This was what the line said when I looked at the log:
@400000004219d3c514d3fe3c alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

I gather that there is some king of qmail send proccess already running, so I ran # ps aux | grep sen:

qmails 1735 0.0 0.5 1388 360 ? S 17:40 0:00 qmail-send
qmaill 1736 0.0 0.5 1336 316 ? S 17:40 0:00 multilog t s100000 n20 /var/log/qmail/qmail-send
root 1744 0.0 0.4 1320 268 ? S 17:40 0:00 supervise qmail-send
qmails 21811 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 22:30 0:00 [qmail-send] <defunct>
root 21817 0.0 0.9 1672 584 pts/0 R+ 22:30 0:00 grep sen

I don't know what to make of this and any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

You seem to have a zombie proccess (hence the Z)

I would try:
1) Stopping qmail "qmailctl stop"
2) Kill the zombie "kill -9 21811"
3) Make sure no qmail proccesses are running "ps -ef | grep qmail"
4) If none are running then try starting "qmailctl start"
5) Flush the queue "qmailctl doqueue"

If it still doesn't work can you post the output from:
qmailctl stat
ps -ef | grep read

Qmail queue and Sendmail hasseles
 

No, that didn't work...
After I restarted qmail and flushed the queue, I attempted to send another email. Unfortunatly, the email got stuck in the queue again. *shakes fist*

Here is the output of ps -ef |grep read - What does it all mean? :confused:

root@linux:~# ps -ef |grep read
root 263 260 0 Feb20 ? 00:00:00 readproctitle service errors: .................................................................................................... ..............
.................................................................................................... ..............
.................................................................................................... ..............
..........................................................
root 3560 3219 0 20:39 pts/0 00:00:00 grep read

And qmailctl stat:

root@linux:~# qmailctl stat
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 3493) 3231 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 3509) 3208 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 3486) 3236 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 3512) 3208 seconds
/service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 3494) 3231 seconds
/service/qmail-pop3d/log: up (pid 3515) 3208 seconds
messages in queue: 1
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0

Is there still a zombie?
ps -ef | grep qmail

Are there any other errors in the log?

I'm not sure....

root@linux:~# ps -ef | grep qmail
root 3485 262 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
vpopmail 3486 3485 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l domain.com -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 30 -u 1013 -g 105 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd domain.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/bin/true
root 3492 262 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 supervise qmail-pop3d
root 3494 3492 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 tcpserver -H -R -v -c100 0 110 qmail-popup domain.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw qmail-pop3d Maildir
qmaill 3512 267 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 multilog t s100000 n20 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd
qmaill 3515 269 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 multilog t s100000 n20 /var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d
qmails 3633 1 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 qmail-send
qmaill 3634 265 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 multilog t s100000 n20 /var/log/qmail/qmail-send
root 3637 3633 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir
qmailr 3638 3633 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 3639 3633 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 qmail-clean
root 3643 262 0 Feb23 ? 00:00:00 supervise qmail-send
qmails 29519 3643 1 14:55 ? 00:00:00 [qmail-send] <defunct>
root 29525 29374 0 14:55 pts/0 00:00:00 grep qmail

And as for the logs, there aren't any different entries as far as I can see. There's still the recurring entries mentioned before, though.

For some reason that proccess is still hanging. Can you post the scripts that you are using to start qmail-send.

Do you mean /var/qmail/bin/qmail-send?
Because that looks like a compiled binary...
Or do you mean the lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local?

/etc/rc.d/rc.imap start
/etc/rc.d/rc.imaps start

Or the qmailctl start script?

start)
echo "Starting qmail..."
echo ""
if svok /service/qmail-send ; then
svc -u /service/qmail-send /service/qmail-send/log
echo "Starting qmail-send"
else
echo "qmail-send supervise not running"
fi
if svok /service/qmail-smtpd ; then
svc -u /service/qmail-smtpd /service/qmail-smtpd/log
echo "Starting qmail-smtpd"
else
echo "qmail-smtpd supervise not running"
fi
if svok /service/qmail-pop3d ; then
svc -u /service/qmail-pop3d /service/qmail-pop3d/log
echo "Starting qmail-pop3d"
else
echo "qmail-pop3d supervise not running"
fi
if [ -d /var/lock/subsys ]; then
touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail


Or something completly different :confused:

Sorry, I actually meant:
/service/qmail-send/run

It seems qmail-send is already running...

root@linux:/service/qmail-send# cat run
#!/bin/sh
exec /var/qmail/rc

The file /var/qmail/rc contains the following lines:
root@linux:/var/qmail# cat rc
#!/bin/sh

exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`"


I tried executing it (qmail-send) but it's already running. (That would make sense....)
root@linux:~# /service/qmail-send/run
alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

THIS JUST IN
I can send mail internally using sendmail, from root@domail.com to postmaster@domain.com