Messages stuck in inbound queue

[Joan Bryan]

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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:39:01 +0000 Martin Hepworth
<martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM> wrote:

> Joan Bryan wrote:
> > Message-ID: <EXECMAIL.1031216141440.D at godiva.kcl.ac.uk>
> > Priority: NORMAL
> > X-Mailer: Execmail for Win32 5.1.1 Build (10)
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> >
> > 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???
>

Okay our spam header modification is being done in exim not in
MailScanner - I'm sorry I don't really follow what you mean.


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Joan Bryan
Unix Systems Administrator
Information Systems
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7848 2671
mailto:joan.bryan at kcl.ac.uk