very urgent problem with MailScanner + postfix

Ron E. ree at THUNDERSTAR.NET
Fri Nov 7 14:58:20 GMT 2003


Ok, thanks Kris - I think provided I get things at least temporarily
stable again I will be configuring a new box with exim. That will also
provide a performance benefit with MailScanner as every message does not
have to be copied from one queue to another.

Regards,

Ron

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Kris Zabriskie wrote:

> The only thing I can think of is play aroud with your message size
> threshold.  See if there are attachements with these messages, see if ya
> can't find a common thread.  I can not say that I have had that problem.
>
>
> > Great, thanks Dave - yes I just found Monkeys still in my RBL list so
> I'll
> > check further but just based on that my performance has gone way up
> > already.
> >
> > Did you also have the problem with duplicate truncated messages being
> > delivered? And messages in the maillog about messages "still being
> > delivered"?
> >
> >
> > -Ron
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, David Vosburgh wrote:
> >
> > > I had a similar problem several weeks ago.  I'd first take a look at
> > > your mail log file for signs of any delays while running MS.  In my
> > > particular case, there were SA timeouts during MS processing.  If you
> > > want to jump the gun, you could just disable SA in the mailscanner
> > > config file, restart MS, and see if things speed up.  If it is SA, then
> > > turn on debugging to see where things are slowing down.  You should
> look
> > > at the various net checks going on there (razor/pyzor/dcc and any
> > > RBL's).  You could selectively disable each one at a time in the
> > > spam.assassin.prefs.conf file to see which one is causing problems.
> > >  Also, several RBL's have gone out of business in the last few
> > > months...you should make sure you aren't using them.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > Ron E. wrote:
> > >
> > > >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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Dave Vosburgh
> > > Sr. Unix System Administrator
> > > Dallas Semiconductor
> > > vosburgh at dalsemi.com  972-371-4418
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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