Urgent: MailScanner apparently stopped processing...

[Julian Field]

At 19:28 17/05/2003, you wrote:
>So is the problem fixed by upgrading MailScanner to 4.21, or do I upgrade
>postfix to 2.0.9 (latest), or do I need to upgrade both?

I run 2.0.7 so I think you probably don't need 2.0.9. The newest
MailScanner should solve it. The Postfix code in MailScanner is very new,
so it is finishing settling down.


>Thanks for the insight and response.
>
> > Here is an excerpt from the ChangeLog for 4.21:
> >
> > - Postfix support now has extra permissions parameter on "mkdir" calls,
> >    solving a syntax error on some versions of Perl.
> > - Postfix support now won't abandon a message because it could not get
> >    the SMTP client IP address out of it. Will insert 0.0.0.0 if no IP
> > address could be found.
> > - Postfix will always pick up IP address of locally-generated mail. -
> > Postfix detects hash directory depth more cleanly.
> > - Postfix handles queue files which are still being written.
> > - Postfix bug fixed when processing messages with no body.
> >
> > At 16:13 17/05/2003, you wrote:
> >>I am having a similar problem. I installed MailScanner-4.20-3 with
> >> Mail-SpamAssassin-2.53 on RedHat 8.0. Already using Postfix 1.1.11 for
> >> about 2 months. Postfix is fabulous. Installing and configuring
> MailScanner
> >> was a breeze. ;-) It ran great for about 48 hours. Then yesterday mail
> >> stopped moving. The two Postfix processes (in and out) were on and seemed
> >> fine. The MailScanner was down to 2 processes when I had allowed 10
> threads
> >> for the 2 CPU system (PIII 933mhz 2gb mem). The "dying of old age"
> messages
> >> had stopped appearing in the log. I killed everything and started again.
> >> Mail moved a little, but I noticed the:
> >>
> >>"Batch: Found invalid queue file for message..."
> >>
> >>repeating quite often. I moved the 20 or so offending files to another path
> >> and started again. After a while I had more of the same kind of offending
> >> files. Finally I couldn't afford to have the mail failing, so I took
> >> MailScanner out of the loop. MailScanner looks like a great product, but I
> >> can't afford this kind of a problem. The CEO came in and pointed out the
> >> importance he places on reliable email (it had only be down 4 hours).
> >> Unfortunatly, he notice the outage before I did.
> >>
> >>This problem seems to involve the defer/deferred mail not being cleaned up
> >> properly.
> >>
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