very urgent problem with MailScanner + postfix

Ron E. ree at THUNDERSTAR.NET
Fri Nov 7 12:11:40 GMT 2003


Ahhh - good thinking - I thought I had removed it but I found Monkeys
still there - just took it out - I'm sure that will help. Still wondering
about the duplicates, though.

Thanks!

-Ron

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Kris Zabriskie wrote:

> 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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