MailScanner restarting every 10 seconds?

[Martin Hepworth]

Andre

turn on debugging in the MailScanner.conf file and run check_MailScanner.

This might give you some clues as to why email isn't flowing..

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Martin Hepworth
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Andre van der Veen wrote:
> I'm running sendmail 8.12.6 on a SuSE 8.1 Pro server using the sendmail MTA
> for mail delivery. Before installing MailScanner, mail was delivering fine.
> I followed the FAQ, MAQ & documentation instructions on how to install
> MailScanner (using MailScanner-4.30.3-2.suse.tar.gz file), SpamAssassin
> 2.63
> (not using RPM's but binaries as suggested) & ClamAV 0.70.
> 
> After installation, everything seems to be fine, but all mails get stuck in
> /var/spool/mqueue.in
> I can clear the queue using 'sendmail -oQ/var/spool/mqueue.in -q' but it
> seems as if MailScanner either doesn't touch the mails or sendmail has some
> issue with picking it up from here, not sure.
> 
> Extract from my sendmail file in /etc/init.d, which I edited according to
> the documentation:
> 
> 
>>>if test -z "$SENDMAIL_ARGS" ; then
>>>(1st line) SENDMAIL_ARGS="-L sendmail -bd -0PrivacyOptions=noetrn -
> 
> ODeliveryMode=queueonly -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in" (this is all
> on one line)
> 
>>>(2nd line) SENDMAIL_ARGS="-L sendmail -q15m"
> 
> 
> I'm pretty new to linux/sendmail, so I'm not 100% sure if I edited the
> correct file here? I know I'm not supposed to post sendmail related queries
> here, but I'm really lost & did read up as much as I can...
> 
> Spam checking & virus checking is enabled, altho I've tried using it with
> the RBL's disabled (thinking it might be DNS related, as per a post in the
> mailing list) but that also doesn't help.
> 
> If I revert everything back to the way it was before MailScanner install,
> mail flows fine again...any ideas or suggestions will be greatly
> appreciated, and apologies if I did miss the same type of post in the
> lists,
> but I've spent the last 4 days searching the archives for my issue and a
> resolution...alot of posts discuss mail stuck in /var/spool/mqueue.in, but
> non of them seems to point me in the right direction, as I've tried many of
> the suggestions in the archives.
> 
> I also checked my /var/logs/mail file and this is what shows up every 10
> seconds:
> 
> Jun  8 12:02:44 omega MailScanner[20166]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.30.3 starting...
> Jun  8 12:02:54 omega MailScanner[20167]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.30.3 starting...
> Jun  8 12:03:04 omega MailScanner[20168]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.30.3 starting...
> Jun  8 12:03:14 omega MailScanner[20169]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.30.3 starting... etc etc etc
> 
> Any ideas why it's doing this? It seems it's trying to start/restart
> MailScanner every 10 seconds, altho when I do a 'ps -ax | grep -i mail' it
> shows up with the following:
> 21089 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: accepting
> connections
> 
> 21092 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00
> for /var/spool/clientmqueue
> 21096 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00
> for /var/spool/mqueue
> 21115 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/perl -
> I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.con
> f
> 21116 ?        Z      0:05 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 21117 ?        Z      0:05 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 21118 ?        Z      0:05 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 21119 ?        Z      0:05 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 21277 ?        Z      0:05 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 21283 ?        S      0:00 sh -c (ps -ax | grep -i mail) 2>&1
> 21284 ?        S      0:00 sh -c (ps -ax | grep -i mail) 2>&1
> 21286 ?        S      0:00 grep -i mail
> 
> 
> When I run 'check_MailScanner', it also shows as running, with a specific
> PID
> 
> Apologies if this post was very long, but I'd rather give all the info I've
> got than to mail back and forth.
> 
> Kind regards,
> André van der Veen
> 
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