mailscanner dying --- suggestion

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WITTSEND.COM
Mon Jan 7 14:33:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:36:36PM +0000, Martin Sapsed wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > Suggestion: Change "Multiple Headers" from "append" to "add" and see if it
> > still dies. This has solved the problem for 1 user.

        Make that 2 users.

> > I know this is only a temporary workaround, but it's better than not
> > working at all :)

> I've just done this change and fed it with a message I had stored which I
> knew would break mailscanner and it worked ok. One of the common bits
> between the messages I'd stored which failed was an existing Mailscanner
> header...

        After reporting that mailscanner had been running for over 48 hours
(I think I said 72, but that was wrong) I found that it had just failed.
Three attempts to start it back up all failed immediately.  Changed the
append to add and it fired right up and processed the queue.  Unfortunately
I lied when I said I would take a snapshot of the queues next time.  I
forgot to do that before trying this, so I lost that test data.  Damn...

> Thanks Julian...

> Martin

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