Serious problems running Mailscanner

[Alex Pimperton]

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Richard Thomas wrote:

> We recently upgraded our Mailscanner to 4.36.4 Suddenly, we were losing
> a lot of messages with a "Could not analyze message" errors. Also, doing
> a ps -ef, there was the original Mailscanner job and its spawned
> children but a lot of additional Mailscanner jobs (at one point reaching
> over 790) with parent process IDs of 1.
>
> We lost a lot of emails. They got thrown into quarantine but without
> headers so I am now working on getting them out to the correct people.
>
> Currently, I am running mailscanner in foreground and debug modes using
> the watch command. This seems to work fine and we haven't lost any
> messages. However, we are still getting errors like
>
>  Could not get to parent of incoming work directory at
> /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/WorkArea.pm line 187.
> and
>  Can't unlink file
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/5243/1CfKnq-0000m6-DL/msg-5243-39.html:
> No such file or directory at
>  /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/WorkArea.pm line 193
>  Can't remove directory
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/5243/1CfKp8-0000zU-Ny: No such file or
> directory at
>  /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/WorkArea.pm line 193
>  and can't restore permissions to 0700
>  at /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/WorkArea.pm line 193
>
> We have a dual CPU system and are running Debian and Exim.
>
> Does anyone have any insight into this?
>
> Rich

This isn's a solution, but I had the same problem a while ago with Exim
on Debian Sarge.

I tried just about everything suggested by the list, and still couldnt
get it working so I removed Exim and installed Postfix and then
installed MailScanner and that fixed the problem.

I don't want to start a MTA flame war but I have had several problems
with exim that I havn't had postfix, including the one above.

Alex

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