Better log excerpt...... (working again - why..?)

[Stefan Zauchenberger]

Thanks much for your suggestions. 

Mail did finally begin appearing again, but it was
some time after all changes had been made. 

It would be logical to attribute the downtime to the
Infinite Monkeys scenario, but removing this and
restarting MailScanner did not appear to correct the
issue (at least for the first 20-30 minutes). 

Also, mail that was clearly whitelisted and not tagged
as spam did not get through for several hours. 

Disabling AV scanning and SpamAssassin were one of the
first things I tried, but there was no change.
The MailScanner and Sendmail processes were both 
running and there were no errors in the log files. 

While both the client and I are pleased that the
system is again operational, it is somewhat
disconcerting that the actual cause remains unknown. 


--- Ugo Bellavance <ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM> wrote:
> >-----Message d'origine-----
> >De : Stefan Zauchenberger
> [mailto:stefanzman at yahoo.com]
> >Envoyé : 15 mars, 2004 18:30
> >À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Objet : Re: Better log excerpt......
> >
> >
> >OK, Infinite monkeys has been removed.
> >
> >Yes, spam is being deleted. This was the demand of
> the
> >customer. They have in turn created several
> >whitelists. Theses settings have been in place for
> >more than a year, and the customer has been happily
> >receiving "wanted" mail.
> >
> >But, mail is still not being delivered to the
> >recipients. The logs still show this:
> 
> Have your restarted/reloaded MailScanner after
> removing Infinite monkeys?
> 
> - What I can see is that:
> 
> - From today, the (dead) Infinite-Monkeys list began
> tagging everything as spam.  Since you delete spam,
> all mail was deleted.
> 
> What is your version of spamassassin?
> 
> >
> >Mar 15 16:34:20 hosting sendmail[30957]:
> i2FMYJd30957:
> >to=<jack at sme-net.com>, delay=00:00:01,
> >mailer=virthostmail, pri=33992, stat=queued
> >
> >Does "stat=queued" not mean that the mail is
> queuing
> >as apposed to "sent"??
> 
> The first sendmail queues it.  Mailscanner scans it,
> then put it in another queue, then the other
> sendmail picks it up dans then send it.


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