MailScanner sudden failure!

[David Closson]

I am very sorry to have bothered...it appears as though spamassasin was
problem...but why did it become a problem of a sudden?

Using SpamAssassin-2.31


Thank you,
David Closson


>From: David Closson <davidclosson at MSN.COM>
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>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: MailScanner sudden failure!
>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:57:53 -0700
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>Greetings Mailscanner users,
>
>I came into work this morning and found that my Redhat 7.3 Server
>(Sendmail 11.6) running stock Mailscanner 3.20-7 (from RPM) stopped
>working.
>  Sendmail accepts mail and places it in the /var/spool/queue.in as normal
>but mailscanner stopped processing them.  This setup was working fine for
>almost 1 month.
>
>The process list show mailscanner as follows:
>(1st)
>root 8754 0.1 3.5 19600 17992 ? S 10:33 0:02 /usr/bin/perl
>/usr/local/MailScanner/bin/mailscanner
>/usr/local/MailScanner/etc/mailscanner.conf
>
>(2nd)
>root 11544 4.4 0.0  0  0 ? Z 10:55   0:00 [mailscanner <defunct>]
>
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Sincerely,
David Closson
209-728-8199


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