Messages stuck in inbound queue

[Martin Hepworth]

Joan Bryan wrote:
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> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:19:43 +0000 Martin Hepworth
> <martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM> wrote:
>
>
>>Joan Bryan wrote:
>>
>>>I upgraded MailScanner from  MailScanner from 4.24-5 to 4.25-14
>>>yesterday but the number of messages in our inbound queue built up
>>>steadily, although some messages were still being processed. Stopping
>>>mailscanner and restarting did not help. Reverting back to 4.25-5
>>>cleared the 22,000 messages that had built up. This configuration is
>>>using exim 4.30 with exiscan with split inbound and outbound queues on
>>>Solaris 9.
>>>
>>>Any ideas as to the problem
>>>
>>>Thanks as always for the great support
>>>
>>>Joan
>
>
>>what did the log files say?
>>
>
>
> Okay here are the log messages for one mailscanner thread:-
>
> Dec 16 00:04:42 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.25-14 starti
> ng...
> Dec 16 00:04:44 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: Using locktype = posix
> Dec 16 00:04:45 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: ) doesn't begin with LWSP -- using it anyway!!
> Dec 16 00:04:45 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: Header
> continuation (X-KCLRealSpamScore: -4.8
>
>  <-Above 2 lines repeated with slightly different info 88 times ->
>
> Dec 16 00:04:45 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: New Batch: Found 5660 messages waiting
> Dec 16 00:04:45 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: New Batch: Scanning 60 messages, 688182 bytes
> Dec 16 00:04:59 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> Dec 16 00:05:02 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: Content Checks: Detected and will disarm HTML message i
> n 1AW2g2-0001Vm-1Z
> Dec 16 00:05:02 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: Content Checks: Detected and will disarm HTML message i
> n 1AW2g0-0001Qw-Gx
> Dec 16 00:05:02 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: Content Checks: Detected and will disarm HTML message i
> n 1AW2f4-00067T-PI
> Dec 16 00:05:02 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: Content Checks: Detected and will disarm HTML message i
> n 1AW2g4-0001ez-Jb
> Dec 16 00:05:03 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: Uninfected: Delivered 60 messages
> Dec 16 00:05:03 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: Header continuation (X-KCLRealSpamScore: 24.5
> Dec 16 00:05:03 elder MailScanner.conf.relay1[23411]: ) doesn't begin with LWSP -- using it anyway!!
>
> The LWSP message appears to be benign has these were in the previous
> version. The 4.25-14 version appears to be processing the queues
> very slowly, the 4.24-5 version had no trouble.
>
>
> Joan
> M
>
> ----------------------
> Joan Bryan
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Information Systems
> Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7848 2671
> mailto:joan.bryan at kcl.ac.uk

hi
Ok in your MailScanner.conf what does it say about the header
modifications???

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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