Frozen messages

Hi,

Any message entering my sendmail queue is marked as frozen. A message
to postmaster is also generated (telling of the frozen message), and
this message is also frozen. "sendmail -qff" fixes the problem
immediately, both messages being sent as expected. I could not find
many clues about what conditions are required for sendmail to mark a
message as frozen -- where should I look? One possibility I did find
was disk space, which does not appear to be a factor.

This behaviour began happening on 4/4/08 for no apparent reason,
having worked fine before that.

Thanks,
Rob

(Example mail queue)
>> mailq
0m 3.1K 1Jijyu-0001dd-9N *** frozen ***
robert@localhost

0m 508 1Jijyu-0001dg-L0 <> *** frozen ***
postmaster@localhost


ps.- I am using fetchmail to get email from an IMAP server, and this
is the mail that is in my mailq.

Re: Frozen messages

In news:5a96d9cf-9005-4ae5-9cfd-48cbb40c72d6@r9g2000prd.googleg roups.com,
robert@itee.uq.edu.au typed:

> Any message entering my sendmail queue is marked as frozen.

Then put it in the macrowave.

Re: Frozen messages

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Re: Frozen messages [exim?]

robert@itee.uq.edu.au wrote:

> Any message entering my sendmail queue is marked as frozen. A message
> to postmaster is also generated (telling of the frozen message), and
> this message is also frozen. "sendmail -qff" fixes the problem
> immediately, both messages being sent as expected. I could not find
> many clues about what conditions are required for sendmail to mark a
> message as frozen -- where should I look? One possibility I did find
> was disk space, which does not appear to be a factor.
>
> This behaviour began happening on 4/4/08 for no apparent reason,
> having worked fine before that.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> (Example mail queue)
>>> mailq
> 0m 3.1K 1Jijyu-0001dd-9N *** frozen ***
> robert@localhost
>
> 0m 508 1Jijyu-0001dg-L0 <> *** frozen ***
> postmaster@localhost
>
>
> ps.- I am using fetchmail to get email from an IMAP server, and this
> is the mail that is in my mailq.

Are you *SURE* you use sendmail as your MTA (mail server)?

I think you use another MTA (exim) based on:
a) terminology (frozen)
b) queue ids produced by mailq

*This* usenet group is about sendmail, it is not about exim.

AFAIK
1) There is no usenet group about exim (outside alt.* hierarchy)
2) There is mailing list about exim

--
[pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip anfi@xl.wp.pl
Open-Sendmail: http://open-sendmail.sourceforge.net/
That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind.
-- Neil Armstrong

Re: Frozen messages [exim?]

On Apr 7, 9:45 pm, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> rob...@itee.uq.edu.au wrote:
> > Any message entering my sendmail queue is marked as frozen. A message
> > to postmaster is also generated (telling of the frozen message), and
> > this message is also frozen. "sendmail -qff" fixes the problem
> > immediately, both messages being sent as expected. I could not find
> > many clues about what conditions are required for sendmail to mark a
> > message as frozen -- where should I look? One possibility I did find
> > was disk space, which does not appear to be a factor.
>
> > This behaviour began happening on 4/4/08 for no apparent reason,
> > having worked fine before that.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Rob
>
> > (Example mail queue)
> >>> mailq
> > 0m 3.1K 1Jijyu-0001dd-9N *** frozen ***
> > robert@localhost
>
> > 0m 508 1Jijyu-0001dg-L0 <> *** frozen ***
> > postmaster@localhost
>
> > ps.- I am using fetchmail to get email from an IMAP server, and this
> > is the mail that is in my mailq.
>
> Are you *SURE* you use sendmail as your MTA (mail server)?
>
> I think you use another MTA (exim) based on:
> a) terminology (frozen)
> b) queue ids produced by mailq
>
> *This* usenet group is about sendmail, it is not about exim.
>
> AFAIK
> 1) There is no usenet group about exim (outside alt.* hierarchy)
> 2) There is mailing list about exim
>
> --
> [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip a...@xl.wp.pl
> Open-Sendmail:http://open-sendmail.sourceforge.net/
> That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind.
> -- Neil Armstrong


You are right, apologies for being OT. Sendmail is linked to the exim
executable, hence my confusion. I found the exim FAQ
and fixed my problem

Thanks,
Rob