qmail problem

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mad_phpq
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qmail problem

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Mail will not leave the queue. Can anyone help me with this.

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/service/qmail-send: up (pid 589) 1 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 26991) 1163 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 26985) 1163 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 26986) 1163 seconds
messages in queue: 1
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 1
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VladSun
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Post by VladSun »

What are the error messages in:
/var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current
?
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mad_phpq
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Post by mad_phpq »

alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex
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Post by mad_phpq »

found a solution. Thanks for showing me the log to look at.

If you see this error in your mail log, then, you have to do the following:

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touch /var/qmail/queue/lock/sendmutex
chown qmails:qmail /var/qmail/queue/lock/sendmutex
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