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

[Lindsay Snider]

On Thursday 04 September 2003 11:45, you wrote:
> 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?

I see this rather frequently w/ SA 2.54.  To fix, I stop MailScanner, destroy 
the bayes db's and restart.  I have not tried 2.60rc3 yet though.  So if 
anything, I second what you saw w/ the stuck bayes db's on SA 2.54.

>
> 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
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