Urgent help needed: mailscanner not processing mail

[Ron E.]

Thanks, Julian -- will do.

In case this is of any use to anyone else what I finally did was
temporarily stop the incoming postfix in order to allow mailscanner to
catch up which it did after some hours, then restarted the incoming
postfix.

Regards,

Ron

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> Upgrade to a more recent MailScanner (4.24 or 4.25) and that Postfix
> message will disappear.
>
> At 02:50 04/11/2003, you wrote:
> >This is urgent, for anyone who may see this and has any ideas on a
> >workaround -
> >
> >I am running MailScanner 4.21-4 and Postfix on RH9. All has been well for
> >months.
> >
> >A few hours ago MailScanner stopped passing any messages to my mta - the
> >number of messages in postfix.in/deferred continues to rise - restarts of
> >mailscanner and a server reboot have not rectified the situation.
> >Occasionally some mail gets passed to my mta but very little and the
> >backlog continues to mount. Also numerous entries in the maillog that say
> >things like:
> >
> >Nov  4 03:41:16 smtp postfix/qmgr[2196]: BF97D160A3D: skipped, still being
> >delivered
> >
> >Any ideas would be welcome.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >-Ron
>
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