MailScanner & new postfix release

pz pz at CHRIST-NET.SK
Thu Mar 25 07:25:59 GMT 2004


I have this problem with lattest snapshot file of Postfix. (RedHat 9)

Source release 2.0.19 work fine.

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S pozdravom

Peter Zimen

On 24.3.2004, at 22:47, Brian Fistler wrote:

> I have 2 postfix systems, one was running postfix 2.18 from Mandrake
> (9.2) rpm
> install on an older P4 system 1G ram, single IDE HD(home) (about 3000
> messages/day) I got MailScanner set up and working fine (version
> 4.29.3 if I
> remember correctly) (f-prot, spamassassin)
>
> I then installed the same version of MailScanner on a dual xeon p4 2.8
> Ghz (with
> hyperthreading turned on) 15Krpm RAID 0-1 SCSI drive 2Gb ram system
> hooked to a
> DS3 line handling approximately 6000 email accounts.
> This system had postfix 2.18-20040209 (if I remember correctly)
> When I would start MailScanner/postfix the cpu load would jump over a
> 30 second
> period from around 1 to 30+ with the system becoming unresponsive
> around the
> 12.5 mark.  If I did a killall MailScanner before it reached 10 or so,
> the
> system would recover.
>
> I upgraded to MailScanner 4.29.4 which stopped that behavior but now I
> have
> another problem.
> Postfix.in seems to be working fine, it is accepting messages and
> moving to the
> deferred directory.  MailScanner is seeing messages and processing
> them, but
> they never show up in the inboxes.  I get lots of the following errors
> in the
> mail/errors log on the 2nd server.
>
> vmail dccproc[13876]: missing message body; fatal error
>
> postfix/qmgr[7178]: warning: saving corrupt file "51C7515CB65" from
> queue
> "active" to queue "corrupt"
>
> and the following errors in the mail/warnings directory:
>
> postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message: corrupt/9C14F15CE35
>
> I upgraded the postfix to 2.19-20040312 & MailScanner to 4.29.5-1 and
> there is
> no change.
>
> I upgraded my home system from 2.18 rpm, to the same 2.19.20040312
> version and
> now it has the same problem.  (compiles with all default options) (I
> know, I
> know, go back to 2.18 "rpm") (I have not tried installing the 2.18
> "official
> release" by compiling yet, I may try that tonight if I get a chance.)
>
> It seems to me that postfix.in is processing everything fine,
> MailScanner is
> picking up & scanning everything just fine, and putting it into the
> incoming
> directory of /var/spool/postfix and then postfix is seeing the message
> as
> corrupted.
>
> Everything looks fine when manually starting the postfix.in process
> with
> "postfix -c /etc/postfix.in start" and when starting the MailScanner
> manually
> with check_mailscanner.  It is when I start the out-going postfix with
> the
> "postfix -c /etc/postfix start" command that the errors show up.
>
> Anyone have any clues?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brian
>
>
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