MailScanner will not process mail

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Debbie Odle wrote:
> No, I don't see anything really in any of the other logs.  During the
> time that MailScanner was starting up, the following is from the
> messages log:
> Aug  8 10:28:14 jamesbond sendmail: sendmail shutdown succeeded
> Aug  8 10:28:14 jamesbond sendmail: sm-client shutdown failed
> Aug  8 10:29:20 jamesbond MailScanner:  succeeded
> Aug  8 10:49:27 jamesbond last message repeated 3 times
> Aug  8 10:49:46 jamesbond last message repeated 8 times
>
> I did check in /var/run before I started MailScanner to make sure there
> was no pid file in there for the sm-client and checked the status of
> sendmail as well.  All was fine.
>
> I'm not sure what you are looking for as far as "hardware specs"...We
> are on a Linux box running RedHat 9, sendmail version is 8.12.8,
> MailScanner version is 4.32.5-1, I have also loaded ClamAV 0.75.1.
>

Hardware specs: >> Cpu RAM, HDD

MailScanner shouldn't be so slow to start, unless you are running it
with the default setting of 5 child process and you have 64 MB RAM and
it starts to swap.

> Everything does seem to be running OK now, though.
>
>
>

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