Exim+Mailscanner duplicate message scans

[Julian Field]

At 22:32 15/04/2003, you wrote:
>Hello, Im running Exim+Mailscanner and my current configuration works
>great but i am a little confused about the scanning messages in
>/var/log/maillog.
>
>When a msg comes it i see duplicate msgs in maillog. Either its being
>scanned twice or Mailscanner is recording it as being scanned twice;
>
>Apr 15 12:39:05 srv05 MailScanner[19913]: New Batch: Found 2 messages waiting
>Apr 15 12:39:05 srv05 MailScanner[19913]: New Batch: Found 2 messages waiting
>Apr 15 12:39:05 srv05 MailScanner[19913]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
>12850 bytes
>Apr 15 12:39:05 srv05 MailScanner[19913]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
>12850 bytes
>Apr 15 12:39:05 srv05 MailScanner[19913]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Apr 15 12:39:05 srv05 MailScanner[19913]: Spam Checks: Starting

Check you /etc/syslog.conf doesn't have 2 separate lines for /var/log/maillog.

>Also, if you look at the msg above you will see 2 msgs in NEW BATCH but it
>says only 1 is being scanned? I dont understand this. Does that mean only
>one msg was scanned and why the duplicates? Is that just the way it works
>with Exim?

If another thread is already scanning one of the messages (or it is still
arriving from the SMTP connection) then you will see exactly this. Don't
worry about it.
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Julian Field
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