On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Johann Spies wrote:
> While exim -bpc shows:
>
> 3557
>
> One line in the output of mailq | exiqsumm shows:
>
> 4269 34MB 24h 1m ma2.sun.ac.za
>
> How do I reconcile those two?
By deeper investigation. I don't expect anyone on this list can help
without further information. Was there a timing effect here? Seems
unlikely, but I note that at least one message has arrived within the
last minute, so maybe a whole pile did, after you ran -bpc?
But otherwise, you need to do more testing. For example:
. Run -bpc and -bp in quick succession, saving the output. Check whether
they agree sufficiently. (By "sufficiently" I mean taking into account
the fact that messages are arriving and departing all the time.)
If not, let me know or post more info.
. Run exiqsumm on the saved output from -bp and see if it agrees. If
not, see if you can find the bug in exiqsumm and post it. If not, send
me the -bp output and I'll take a look.
...but only if you are using a pretty recent release of Exim (preferably
the latest, 4.24).
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