troubleshooting mailscanner

[Martin Hepworth]

Chris

in the MailScanner.conf there's a debug option you can turn on (one for
SA too).

turn this on. Stop MailScanner and run
/opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner and will dump debug at you to
figure out what's happening..

Also worth checking the followingin MailScanner.conf isn't set too high..

# If more messages are found in the queue than this, then switch to an
# "accelerated" mode of processing messages. This will cause it to stop
# scanning messages in strict date order, but in the order it finds them
# in the queue. If your queue is bigger than this size a lot of the time,
# then some messages could be greatly delayed. So treat this option as
# "in emergency only".
Max Normal Queue Size = 1000


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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Chris Connell wrote:
> Our email gateway was bombarded with spam etc last night. So now I have 40k
> mails or so in the mailscanner queue. When I start mailscanner it is just
> sitting there doing nothing ie
>
> Apr 26 11:41:12 ns1 MailScanner[277]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.29.7 starting...
> Apr 26 11:41:12 ns1 MailScanner[277]: Using Custom Function file
> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/MyExample.pm
> Apr 26 11:41:13 ns1 MailScanner[277]: Using locktype = flock
>
>
> Before it was processing the messages 30 at a time but has just stopped now.
> Any ideas please? My platform is sun ultra5 solaris9.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
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