MailScanner sudden failure!

[David Closson]

Thank you for the rapid response.

No, I am not using the "osirusoft" DNSBL.

I had to config mailscanner to not use spamassassin -this worked but I was
just curious why spamassassin would stop functioning.

Dave Closson


>From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
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>At 18:57 12/07/2002, you wrote:
>>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>]
>
>What did you syslog/maillog say?
>Are you using the "osirusoft" DNSBL (in a "Spam List" configuration line)?
>There seem to be distinct problems with osirusoft today, and it may be
>making things run slowly.
>
>The next feature I am going to add is a "Ignore Spam List entry after n
>timeouts" feature, so that the failure of one of the RBL's doesn't cause
>MailScanner to run slowly for very long. It will restore it to the list
>when it next restarts itself, but until then it won't try to use it.
>--
>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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Sincerely,
David Closson
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