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From: Dan Lazin <thingsarebroken@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: sendmail is complaining that mqueue doesn't exist
To: Kluchnikov Grigory <grn@ispras.ru>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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I reinvoked sendmail using the -O QueueDirectory=
option and then it worked fine. I was using a physical
directory before named /var/spool/mqueue -- I had
deleted the symlink after it found out it wasn't
working. The physical directory and the symlink now
both work fine. I reinvoked once with QueueDirectory
and then again without, and it works.

Many thanks,
Dan

--- Kluchnikov Grigory <grn@ispras.ru> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to do same things on my host and tried to
> send mail.
> It works OK! 
> Try to see permissions on your new mqueue dir and 
> to check that symlink to it is correct.
> 
> Grigory.
> 
> > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:06:08 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Dan Lazin <thingsarebroken@yahoo.ca>
> > Subject: sendmail is complaining that mqueue
> doesn't exist
> > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> > 
> > I did a dumb thing: I ran out of space on /var
> because
> > of a large message sitting in /var/spool/mqueue,
> so I
> > moved the contents of that directory over to
> > /usr/mqueue, and symlinked /var/spool/mqueue over
> to
> > that location. Then sendmail started complaining
> every
> > time I tried to send a message. It says '451
> > queuename: Cannot create "qfBAA00619" in
> > "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=0): No such file or
> > directory'
> > 
> > Fine. So I deleted my symlink and built a new,
> empty
> > regular directory at /var/spool/mqueue. Same
> error. I
> > can't send mail, and it's making me sad. The mailq
> > command works, however (now that I've moved the
> queued
> > messages back into /var/spool/mqueue).
> > 
> > ls -l in /var/spool/ gives: 
> > ...
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root  daemon  512 Apr 20 02:02
> mqueue
> > ...
> > 
> > So why is it saying that mqueue doesn't exist? It
> > still has a bunch of queued messages in it, and
> mailq
> > finds them, so what's the problem?
> > 
> > I don't like having to use this yahoo account
> while my
> > server is broken. Please help.
> > 
> > Dan Lazin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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> Best regards,
> Grigory Klyuchnikov
>
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