messages in queue: 16323

i did the following and came up with:

[root@stampy lock]# qmailctl stat
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 6024) 7002 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 5441) 7908 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 5373) 7960 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 5378) 7960 seconds
/service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 5447) 7908 seconds
/service/qmail-pop3d/log: up (pid 5448) 7908 seconds
messages in queue: 16232
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 292


i'm sure this question has been talked about a million times.

I'm not sure where to look first to see why i've got that many message
in queue.

Thanks in advance

I should also say that I have been getting emails sent to me.
I'm not sure if that's related.

AdMan wrote:

> i did the following and came up with:
>
> [root@stampy lock]# qmailctl stat
> /service/qmail-send: up (pid 6024) 7002 seconds
> /service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 5441) 7908 seconds
> /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 5373) 7960 seconds
> /service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 5378) 7960 seconds
> /service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 5447) 7908 seconds
> /service/qmail-pop3d/log: up (pid 5448) 7908 seconds
> messages in queue: 16232
> messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 292
>
>
> i'm sure this question has been talked about a million times.
>
> I'm not sure where to look first to see why i've got that many message
> in queue.
>
> Thanks in advance
>


Get qmHandle and you will likely see that the vast majority of those
messages are bounces.

in short, you are likely being spammed.
What is your setup? max remote connections? qmail-showctl. tail of the
qmail-send log.

Did you patch qmail in any way? anti-spam, modify the process to allow
for improved handling of the queue?

AK