Mailscanner consuming resources

[Phil Kendall]

The log files say that mailscanner failed to link message bodies between
queues.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: 29 August 2002 09:41
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner consuming resources
> 
> 
> Check your /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming directory tree for 
> any core files.
> Does it say anything in the logs?
> Have you studied the contents of the message to see why it 
> might cause a
> problem?
> Modern versions of MailScanner have timeouts on everything invoked
> externally to protect against DoS attacks.
> 
> At 09:27 29/08/2002, you wrote:
> >Usualy about twice a day I am getting a problem with 
> mailscanner where
> >it will fail to sweep a message correctly and the message will never
> >leave the mailscanner/incoming directory. The load averages 
> the machine
> >will reach up to and over 1.0. During this time the top two processes
> >are mailscanner and sweep.
> >
> >To bring the load averages down I have to go into the
> >/var/spool/mqueue.in directory and delete both the qf and df 
> files for
> >the message that is 'stuck'.
> >
> >I am running mailscanner-3.15-3 with Sophos on Solaris 8 on an intel
> >platform.
> >
> >Has anyone else come across this, or know what might be causing it?
> >
> >
> >Phil Kendall
> >Technical Systems Administrator
> >Total Connectivity Providers
> 
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> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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>