Hi, I have an RH30EL box with rpm: sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4
This server works as mail gateway and it sends all traffic to a second
server.
The problem is that in mqueue I can see many df files without its qf (from
May to now qf=800/df=6000).
df files are corrupted. They are recognized by command "file" as data.
Many file lines are shown as @@@@@ and the last part of the file
is in clear text. Looking into maillog there's no evidence about
those emails.

The only hack I applied to this sendmail version is to /etc/init.d/sendmail
disabling sm-client but I don't think this is the problem.

Any advice?

Thanks.

Leonardo.

"Bumo" <leo@insiel.it> wrote in message news:ee97of$to4$1@emma.aioe.org...
> Hi, I have an RH30EL box with rpm: sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4
> This server works as mail gateway and it sends all traffic to a second
> server.
> The problem is that in mqueue I can see many df files without its qf (from
> May to now qf=800/df=6000).
> df files are corrupted. They are recognized by command "file" as data.
> Many file lines are shown as @@@@@ and the last part of the file
> is in clear text. Looking into maillog there's no evidence about
> those emails.
>
> The only hack I applied to this sendmail version is to
> /etc/init.d/sendmail
> disabling sm-client but I don't think this is the problem.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Leonardo.
>
>

I would just stop sendmail, then simply delete them (they are corrupted, you
say).

Make sure you have the correct permissions on /var/spool/mqueue (or whatever
the queue directory is).
Usually this is for the 'root' user permissions 600.

Then restart sendmail.