very urgent problem with MailScanner + postfix

Kris Zabriskie zabriskw at ITECH.NET
Fri Nov 7 14:01:06 GMT 2003


Ron,
Just checking here, but you do not run OSIRUS or Monkeys.com still for
RBLS do you?


> 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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