Qmail woes after restore

[unixguy]

I recently had a hard drive failure and was forced to restore from backups.

After the restore local mail delivery is not working correctly.

The local mail queue will grow. After some time I will run

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mchk --with-spam

Then I will run a Flush queue

/usr/local/qmHandle/qmHandle -a

And all the messages will go.

The queue will operate and deliver normally for a time - but eventually something will get caught and the entire queue will stop processing.

There are no errors in /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog that tell me what message(s) are causing the problem.

Running qmHandle -a on its own is not enough
Running mchk --with-spam on its own is not enough. I must run both.


Can anyone tell me where I should look?

It is my understanding that mchk will repair/rebuild all Qmail configuration files and restore settings for all mailboxes. So what is it that is coming along and wrecking my qmail configs?


For the moment I've added a crontab to run mchk and qmHandle -a every 15 minutes -- but this is not a long term solution.


Many thanks,


Troy


I restored the psa databases, the websites and the /var/qmail directory hierarchy - no problems.

All the user accounts and passwords are fine.

Mail sent externally works fine.

 

[blank_page]

Hello,


Check the maillog and see if what the concurrencyremote and concurrencylocal shows.

Increase those values and see if there are changes.

 

[unixguy]

bad odeivar

I finally determined that there was a crontab entry running at 10 past the hour called insert_odeivar

Apparently I had a faulty version of odeivar and this was causing mail to hang. When I would run mchk it would remove the odeivar filter and things would work until the cronjob ran again.

odeivar is related to my virus filtering.

Thanks blank_page for your help!