Serious problem

Hi all,
I've got a weird problem with Qmail 1.03 on a Redhat 8.0 box. The
qmail service works fine for a couple days, then it hangs and I need
to reboot.
The users (using Outlook Express and Mozilla Mail) can access their
mailbox with no errors at all, they can even download their mail and
send new mail. BUT their messages are not delivered until the server
is rebooted! The very same happens when receiving messages, the
messages are not delivered to the users' mailboxes until the next
reboot (they are not lost at all!).

I need to reboot because restarting the Qmail services is not enough
(I tried qmailctl restart,qmailctl alrm, qmailctl flush e qmailctl
hup, useless)...
No errors in the log files unless you have a more specific log to tell
me.
Launching qmailctl stat, I can see:

/service/qmail-send: up (pid 944) 52461 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 945) 52461 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 12677) 0 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 959) 52460 seconds
messages in queue: 10
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 10
/service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 962) 52460 seconds
/service/qmail-pop3d/log: up (pid 960) 52460 seconds


Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks.

Mauro

I think your problem is that the smtp deamon is not running...

/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 12677) 0 seconds

the seconds should be greater than one. try to shut down the service, then
restart it.
svc -d /service/qmail-smtpd

then
execute /service/qmail-smtpd manually. see if you get an error..

then ctrl C and
svc -u /service/qmail-smtpd

to bring the service back up

"Mauro" <mauro@mauro.it> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I've got a weird problem with Qmail 1.03 on a Redhat 8.0 box. The
> qmail service works fine for a couple days, then it hangs and I need
> to reboot.
> The users (using Outlook Express and Mozilla Mail) can access their
> mailbox with no errors at all, they can even download their mail and
> send new mail. BUT their messages are not delivered until the server
> is rebooted! The very same happens when receiving messages, the
> messages are not delivered to the users' mailboxes until the next
> reboot (they are not lost at all!).
>
> I need to reboot because restarting the Qmail services is not enough
> (I tried qmailctl restart,qmailctl alrm, qmailctl flush e qmailctl
> hup, useless)...
> No errors in the log files unless you have a more specific log to tell
> me.
> Launching qmailctl stat, I can see:
>
> /service/qmail-send: up (pid 944) 52461 seconds
> /service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 945) 52461 seconds
> /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 12677) 0 seconds
> /service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 959) 52460 seconds
> messages in queue: 10
> messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 10
> /service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 962) 52460 seconds
> /service/qmail-pop3d/log: up (pid 960) 52460 seconds
>
>
> Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Mauro
>