MailScanner doesn't deal with lousy internet

[Julian Field]

The problem is caused by the anti-virus autoupdater not being able to run
properly. In order that MailScanner never tries to use a half-updated virus
scanner (which would be a "very bad thing(tm)") the autoupdaters lock out
MailScanner while the update is in progress.

If you let me know what virus scanner you are using, I'll take a look at
the autoupdater and see if there's anything I can do for you. What version
of MS are you using?

At 12:09 26/08/2003, you wrote:
>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
> > >
> >

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Julian Field
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