Exim and MS 4.11-1

[Julian Field]

At 21:56 07/01/2003, you wrote:
>I am trying to upgrade MS from version 3 to 4.11-1.  I have shut down the
>old version and renamed its directory, and I am treating this as a new
>install.  But when I run the new version, the spawned processes seem to scan
>the mail for spam, then for viruses, and then partially move one message
>from the in queue to the out queue before crashing.  Then another process
>does the same thing.

You probably still have the cron job which regularly restarts version 3.
Check /etc/cron*/*.


>I set Debug = yes in the config file and ran MS again, and this is what I
>get:
>
># /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner
>/usr/local/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
>In Debugging mode, not forking...
>Not an ARRAY reference at /usr/local/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Exim.pm
>line 1082.
>Stopping now as you are debugging me.
># Not an ARRAY reference at /usr/local/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Exim.pm
>line 1082.
>
>After this run, the -D file from one of my messages in the in queue has been
>moved to the out queue, and the -H file is nowhere to be found.
>
>I know a little bit of perl, and took a look at Exim.pm, but I don't know
>what it is supposed to be doing.  It must be something I've configured
>wrong, as nobody else seems to be having this problem.  Any ideas?
>
>I am using Exim 3.35.  Here are some lines from my config file - I can post
>the whole thing if needed:
>
>Run As User = mail
>Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim_incoming/input
>Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim/input
>MTA = exim
>Sendmail = /usr/sbin/exim
>Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim_outgoing.conf
>Deliver In Background = yes
>Delivery Method = batch
>
>Thanks for any thoughts.
>
>Jason Desai

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