Exim+Mailscanner duplicate message scans

[Michael Szabados]

Well my syslog.conf contains two lines as you said.
Since im running Bastille firewall it seems another line has been added by
Bastille to log it Here is what i see;

This is the origional line
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
local0.notice;local0.debug;mail.*;mail.none;mail.info;local0.info
/var/log/maillog

And then i have another one here

############ BASTILLE ADDITIONS BELOW : #################
# Log warning and errors to the new file /var/log/syslog
*.warn;*.err    /var/log/syslog
# Log all kernel messages to the new file /var/log/kernel
kern.*  /var/log/kernel
# Log all logins to /var/log/loginlog
auth.*;user.*;daemon.none       /var/log/loginlog
# Log additional data to the Alt-F7 and Alt-F8 screens (Pseudo TTY 7 and 8)

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none  /dev/tty7
authpriv.*      /dev/tty7
*.warn;*.err    /dev/tty7
kern.*  /dev/tty7
local0.notice;local0.debug;mail.*;mail.none;mail.info;local0.info
/var/log/maillog

So your saying i should remove one?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Exim+Mailscanner duplicate message scans


> 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.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>