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qmail problem

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:17 am
by mad_phpq
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

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:25 pm
by VladSun
What are the error messages in:
/var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current
?

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:26 pm
by mad_phpq
alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:32 pm
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