Mailscanner consuming resources

[Julian Field]

At 09:51 29/08/2002, you wrote:
>The log files say that mailscanner failed to link message bodies between
>queues.

Check you haven't got multiple MailScanner processes running.
And you are using a vaguely recent version of sendmail aren't you?
There aren't many reasons why the linking can fail :-(

> > -----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
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> >

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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
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ