imsimta qm Command reports "the message file ... is not accessible" (Doc ID 1512208.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 01, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

After doing imsimta qm dir to see the list of messages in the channel queue, the qm history command gives the following error:

qm.maint> dir <channel>
Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:26:27 +0000 (GMT)
Data gathered from the queue directory tree

Channel: tcp_replay               Size Queued since
--------------------------------------------------------------
    1 ZZi0~6Z_zGSYf.00               2  06 Dec 2012 00:25:04
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total size:                          2

Grand total size:                    2

qm.maint> history 1
%QM-W-FILENOTACC, the message file <server-root>/queue/<channel>/00/ZZi0~6Z_zGSYf.00 is not accessible;
    The message is probably being processed; the underlying operating system
    status codes are 0 and 0

Changes

MTA queue files were being manually moved between channel queue directories to test a recovery procedure.

Cause

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