Mqueue.in is filling up! - Autoupdate Scripts

[Julian Field]

Agreed, *we* probably should...

At 19:55 29/07/2003, you wrote:
>Why are we delaying Mailscanner while waiting to retrieve files from the
>Internet?
>
>We *should* be retrieving the files into a temporary location, verifying
>that the file transfers
>succeeded, and only then locking Mailscanner for a few miliseconds while
>moving updated files in
>place.
>
>Of course, we should also try to fail gracefully for any reason including
>timeouts.
>
>Rich B
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gerry Doris" <gerry at DORFAM.CA>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:55 PM
>Subject: Re: Mqueue.in is filling up!
>
>
> > > I'm having a weird MailScanner problem.  Sendmail will sit there and
> start
> > > tossing mail into the queue.in, not a problem with that.  However when I
> > > look in the mail.log this is what I see:
> > >
> > > Jul 29 10:06:03 mustang MailScanner[238072]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> > > Scanner version 4.20-3 starting...
> > > Jul 29 10:06:05 mustang MailScanner[244953]: Using locktype = flock
> > > Jul 29 10:06:08 mustang MailScanner[245441]: New Batch: Found 1634
> > > messages
> > > waiting
> > > Jul 29 10:06:08 mustang MailScanner[245441]: New Batch: Scanning 100
> > > messages, 2816396 bytes
> > > Jul 29 10:06:08 mustang MailScanner[245441]: Spam Checks: Starting
> > >
> > > However, the messages are not getting delivers, so the queue.in is just
> > > piling up!  Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > I had similar results when the update scripts for either ClamAV or F-Prot
> > (which I use)were unable to reach their respective sites.  When those
> > scripts run MailScanner is stopped using a lockfile.  If they don't exit
> > properly mail continues to be received in in.queue but MailScanner isn't
> > available to process the mail and move it out for delivery.
> >
> > I modified my scripts with timeouts to prevent this.  I also noticed that
> > I had a series of timeouts with F-Prot the other day when they were having
> > problems with their site.
> >
> > Gerry

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