Postfix issues

[Drew Marshall]

On Tue, July 27, 2004 2:11, Pete said:
> Something strange - today i noticed that sql was stopped and i had 500
> emails banked up waiting to be processed - i started sql and restarted
> MS and keep seeing  the following in the log The number 495 is ever
> increasing.
>
> Does anyone havge any tips on getting mail flowing again :( ?
>
> Pete
>
> Jul 27 11:33:19 mail01 MailScanner[69783]: New Batch: Found 495 messages
> waiting
> Jul 27 11:33:19 mail01 MailScanner[69783]: New Batch: Scanning 30
> messages, 391335 bytes
> Jul 27 11:33:19 mail01 MailScanner[69783]: Spam Checks: Starting
> Jul 27 11:33:20 mail01 MailScanner[65384]: Message 9DC92619 from
> 64.62.164.186 (newsletter at nl.internet.com) to mteliza.com.au is not
> spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 5, autolearn=)
>
> (even though i have autolearn= 1 in spam.assassin.prefs)
>
> I have never seen a corrupt postfix error message before. But i did
> notice that /tmp was %100 FULL of sa.87345 files. One of my other
> consoloes was spitting out
> postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message: corrupt/5B94071
> postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message: corrupt/6FCD934D
> postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message: corrupt/461889B
> postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message: corrupt/E52B2C7
> postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
> -su-2.05b#
> Message from syslogd at mail01 at Tue Jul 27 11:32:27 2004 ...
> mail01 /kernel: le system full
>
> Another interesting log excerpt
>
> Jul 27 11:30:59 mail01 MailScanner[52587]: New Batch: Found 493 messages
> waiting
> Jul 27 11:31:00 mail01 MailScanner[52587]: New Batch: Scanning 30
> messages, 421093 bytes
> Jul 27 11:31:00 mail01 MailScanner[52587]: Spam Checks: Starting
> Jul 27 11:31:01 mail01 postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message:
> corrupt/D63372275
> *<SNIP>*
> Jul 27 11:31:01 mail01 postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message:
> corrupt/8A2F775

Pete

Which versions of Postfix, SA & MS are you running? There was an issue
with Postfix 2.1.x and an older MS version corrupting Postfix files (In
fact I seem to remember the final fix was in the last Beta release. I
don't know if JP has committed the latest beta to the ports tree yet).

Drew


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