double message

[Julian Field]

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You *may* need
Lock Type = posix

Search the list archive for "posix" and you will find plenty of discussion
around this subject.

At 14:07 15/08/2004, you wrote:
>os: Fedora Core 1
>sendmail: 8.12.10
>mailscanner: 4.32.5-1
>spamassassin 2.64
>
>I seem to have the same problem described by a user before but has not been
>replied with an solution. (http://tinyurl.com/65pw4) at some point incoming
>messages are doubled this is pretty annoying for my users. Doing a "service
>MailScanner restart" solves the problem for a little while but this is not
>a permanent sulution as after a while messages double up again. Today I
>completely removed sendmail, mailscanner, spamassassin and re-installed and
>configured it again from clean configuration files but without result.
>
>----------------------------------
>virtusertable
>----------------------------------
>email01 at address.com  localuser
>email02 at address.com  localuser
>email03 at address.com  localuser
>
>----------------------------------
>MailScanner.conf some bits.
>----------------------------------
>Max Children = 5
>Restart Every = 14400
>MTA = sendmail
>Max Unscanned Bytes Per Scan = 100000000
>Max Unsafe Bytes Per Scan = 50000000
>Max Unscanned Messages Per Scan = 30
>Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 30
>Max Normal Queue Size = 800
>Lockfile Dir = /tmp
>#Lock Type = flock
>
>I had set lock to flock for a while which did not resolve the problem. This
>server is under some heavy load at some points since some retard spammer is
>doing a ongoing carpet-bombing on one of my domains. Where could the
>problem be?
>
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