MailScanner reports FATAL Code error and sendmail stops.

Richard Lush richard.lush at NTLWORLD.COM
Tue Feb 17 16:36:48 GMT 2004


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Hi All,
 
I have a situation where one of the MailScanner servers has about 40 email messages on it and has stopped processing
 
I'm getting some strange error messages as can be seen below and has only started today.  I've checked the MailScanner.conf and the code is supported.  Any one have any ideas why I am seeing this FATAL error and why sendmail would be rejecting the emails.
 
Feb 17 16:30:46 obiwan MailScanner[2002]: Using locktype = flock 
Feb 17 16:31:06 obiwan MailScanner[1780]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting 
Feb 17 16:31:06 obiwan MailScanner[1780]: FATAL: Encountered code that does not meet configured acceptable stability 
Feb 17 16:31:06 obiwan MailScanner[1780]: FATAL: *Please go and READ* http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/codestatus.shtml as it will tell you what to do. 
Feb 17 16:31:10 obiwan MailScanner[1791]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting 
Feb 17 16:31:11 obiwan MailScanner[1791]: FATAL: Encountered code that does not meet configured acceptable stability 
 
Feb 17 16:31:49 obiwan MailScanner[2064]: Read whitelist for 4 emails 
Feb 17 16:31:50 obiwan sendmail[1741]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 12
Feb 17 16:31:50 obiwan sendmail[1741]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 12
Feb 17 16:32:01 obiwan dccproc[2074]: DCC servers dcc1.dcc-servers.net dcc2.dcc-servers.net dcc3.dcc-servers.net ... at 208.201.249.232 209.157.153.22 212.20
Feb 17 16:32:05 obiwan sendmail[1741]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 12
Feb 17 16:32:05 obiwan sendmail[1741]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 12
Feb 17 16:32:06 obiwan MailScanner[2062]: Using locktype = flock 
Feb 17 16:32:20 obiwan sendmail[1741]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 12
Feb 17 16:32:20 obiwan sendmail[1741]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 12
Feb 17 16:32:30 obiwan dccproc[2085]: DCC servers dcc1.dcc-servers.net dcc2.dcc-servers.net dcc3.dcc-servers.net ... at 208.201.249.232 209.157.153.22 212.20
Feb 17 16:32:32 obiwan MailScanner[2064]: Using locktype = flock 
Feb 17 16:32:35 obiwan sendmail[1741]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 12

 
I've tried rebooting and stopped the SMTP connection to this box.
 
Any ideas?
 
Thanks
 
Richard
 
 
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