Mail Not Routing, stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Desai, Jason]

For me, it would not surprise me if the bayes database was corrupt.  I've
used that box for many different tests.  I can wipe out the database.  But
shouldn't MailScanner time out SpamAssassin if it takes too long?  I have

SpamAssassin Timeout = 70
Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 20

but MailScanner was hanging for hours.

Jason

> I have just seen one of my servers hang, due to the Bayes
> database getting
> corrupt. If I set "Debug = yes" and "Debug SpamAssassin = yes" then it
> printed millions of error messages about a "partial write (number  of
> 665)". Presumably there was supposed to be a number before
> "of", which is
> supposed to increment but doesn't. I switched off Bayes
> (use_bayes 0) to
> work around the problem.
>
> What's the chance there are some messages out there which are
> capable of
> causing Bayes corruption due to them containing strange
> characters/strings?
> Has anyone suffered this problem who is using SA 2.60rc3?
>
> At 15:43 04/09/2003, you wrote:
> >Not sure if this will help or not, but I have noticed
> MailScanner on my
> >backup/test server hanging.  An strace of the process showed
> nothing.  But
> >ls -l /proc/<pid>/fd/ showed that it had some of the
> SpamAssassin bayes
> >database files opened.  This is running MailScanner version
> 4.22-5 and
> >SpamAssassin version 2.54.
> >
> >The strange thing is that MailScanner had been hung for over
> a day!  I would
> >have thought that MailScanner would have timed out
> SpamAssassin by then.
> >Killing MailScanner and restarting would fix the problem for
> a while, then
> >it would happen again.  I know that some people who are
> having this problem
> >are not using SpamAssassin, but perhaps there is a problem
> in the time out
> >code for SpamAssassin or Virus Checking?
> >
> >I'm not complaining.  My main MailScanner server is working,
> and I set
> >"use_bayes 0" on my backup, and that seemed to clear its
> problem.  The
> >backup is a 233 MHz with 128 Mb of ram, and has other
> functions besides
> >scanning email, so it is taxed when MailScanner scans email.
> >
> >Anyways, maybe this helps - if not, just ignore.
> >
> >Jason
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 5:26 AM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Mail Not Routing, stuck in
> > > /var/spool/mqueue.in
> > >
> > >
> > > One of the things you could do to track it is this:
> > >
> > > In /usr/sbin/MailScanner, look for the "sub WorkForHours"
> and scatter
> > >          print STDERR "Got to point 1\n";
> > > statements through it (obviously changing the number). Then
> > > set "Debug =
> > > yes" and you should see this output. If it is pausing
> horribly at some
> > > particular stage of processing a batch, then this should show
> > > it up. Leave
> > > all the spam checks disabled if you can, these take quite a
> > > long time anyway.
> > >
> > > And check your /etc/sysconfig/i18n has no mention of "utf8"
> > > in it. That's
> > > important.
> > >
> > > At 10:26 04/09/2003, you wrote:
> > > >Hi!
> > > >
> > > > > Without login access to somebody's machine which is
> > > *reliably* suffering
> > > > > from this problem, I'm a bit stuck.
> > > >
> > > >If it was happening _right now_ i would -love- to give a
> > > login, but it
> > > >isnt.
> > > >
> > > >One of the other people who is suffering from this wanting
> > > to give Julian
> > > >a login for looking into this ?
> > > >
> > > >Bye,
> > > >Raymond.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Julian Field
> > > www.MailScanner.info
> > > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> > >
>
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>