MailScanner doesn't deal with lousy internet

[Chris Mason]

If we had an alternative, we would. We are on a small Caribbean Island where
we are lucky to have good internet at all. This problem is recent and
concerns a certina router, I'm sure will be fixed soon but it still
illustrates a rpoblem with MailScanner. Sendmail never locked up despite
internet problems.

Chris Mason
masonc at masonc.com
Yahoo IM: netconcepts_anguilla at yahoo.com
264 497-5670 Fax: 264 497-8463
www.netconcepts.ai


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ulysees
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 5:40 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner doesn't deal with lousy internet
>
>
> The other solution here is to ditch Cable & Wireless as a
> provider, worked
> well for me :)
>
>
>
> > One of my servers is on a DSL from Cable & Wireless and
> they are having
> > problems with the gateway. We are seeing periods of packet loss and
> > outages as they try to fix it, and it's been going on for a
> couple of
> > days now.
> > The server is running Redhat 7.3 and MailScanner with SA and
> > ClamAV/F-Prot. I found today that mail had not been
> delivered for hours
> > so I checked the server and found that the scripts that updated the
> > virus databases had locked up. Restarting MailScanner did
> not fix it and
> > only killing the offending PIDs solved it.
> > Is there a way to improve this situation? I would like to lower the
> > update schedule to nightly so as to lessen the chance of
> this happening.
> > Is there a way to kill off any update scripts with the old
> MailScanner
> > process?
> >
> > Chris Mason
> >
>