> The files in /var/spool/mqueue (and now also /var/spool/mqueue.spam) > begin with either "qf" or "df" (queue file or data file). There should > be one of each for each email. The rest of the filename is made up from > sendmail's queue tag for that message, which also appears in > /var/log/maillog. > > I want to see what's in one of the "qf" files for one of the spam emails. Those are the files I deleted in the last message exchange :-( in order to stop all queud message from going out. I did however save the first and last rejection which contains header information - the bad new there (too) is that I saved them in a Squirrelmail folder and SM is now not responding without MySql running, although I didn't realise there was a dependency there(?). Having examined the headers I noticed the emails were coming from a (randomletters)@yahoo account and being sent to (randonletters)@yahoo and hotmail. The large bulk were in the queue undeliverable but it looks like at least a few hundred go through. > Try removing the lock file manually: > > # rm /var/lock/subsys/mysqld > > This is probably a symptom of the problem rather than being the problem > itself though. I had already tried that trick - no difference, it just creates a new file when I try to restart. The error seems to be: /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno:13) but I haven't tracked that one down yet bob
