very urgent problem with MailScanner + postfix

[Ron E.]

Not a bad idea, I'll have to see about doing that, however, I have not had
a problem with this before and my traffic levels have not changed all that
much...

Also I'm getting many truncated duplicates of the same message here -
definitely seems to be the same problem I saw when I was runnign 4.21-4.

-Ron

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Mike Kercher wrote:

> Do you run a local caching-only nameserver on your MTA box?  That may help
> RBL/DNS performance.
>
> Mike
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ron E.
> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 5:50 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: very urgent problem with MailScanner + postfix
> >
> > Hi Kris,
> >
> > the child settings and the message size limits are default -
> > I believe it's 5 on the children - and no, no copies created
> > on the mta.
> >
> > One thing I'm noticing in the logs as well is a seemingly
> > very slow performance on RBL checks... maybe I could disable
> > some - but this is odd as I've not had this problem in the past.
> >
> > -Ron
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Kris Zabriskie wrote:
> >
> > > Ron,
> > > How many child processes are you allowing MailScanner to
> > use?  In the
> > > MailScanner.Conf file there are also some limits on message size.
> > > What are they set to?  Are you by chance using the approach
> > at the mta
> > > level, it will take a message addressed to multiple people
> > and making
> > > "X" copies of that message?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hopefully someone will see this very shortly.
> > > >
> > > > Several days ago I posted a message about the same problem where
> > > > mailscanner begins to backlog and errors about messages
> > "still being
> > > > delivered" show up in the maillog, with hardly any
> > messages passed
> > > > by mailscanner to the mta.
> > > >
> > > > I've since upgraded to 4.24-5 due to a backlog starting to happen
> > > > again but it never cleared up and is unfortunately much
> > worse this
> > > > time - (much larger backlog).
> > > >
> > > > I've temporarily stopped the incoming postfix to give
> > mailscanner a
> > > chance
> > > > to catch up, but need some debugging here to get the
> > backlog cleared
> > > > out as fast as possible and to fully fix this...
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ron
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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