Problem with qf* files in mqueue.in

[Brent Strignano]

Sergio,

See if you can exclude your queue directory from being scanned by the clamav daemon or uninstall it. MailScanner only uses the command line scanner, not the daemon. The on-access scanner may interfere with sendmail.

Brent Strignano
System Administrator
Granite Capital Holdings
Sidney, NY
 


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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Sergio Sergio
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:27 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Problem with qf* files in mqueue.in


Hello , I have a problem with the files in mqueue.in.
I send email to mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk ,but they say that I send it 
to the list.

The text of the messages sent is:

I have a problem with the mqueue.in, the incoming  messages mqueue and the projections in mqueue but in mqueue remain these loose qfi3UBaN04009203 ...
qfi*

The archives are accumulated daily,grow with time.
There are archives of several days and today.

Emails seems that they are send correctly but this files in mqueue.in remain (qf*).

I use:
Debian stable, with Package unstable

sendmail       8.12.3-6.6
mailscanner    4.29.7-1
clamav         0.70-4
clamav-base    0.70-4
clamav-daemon  0.70-4
spamassassin   2.63-1

I have both sendmail and MailScanner running.
First I start up sendmail and then MailScanner.
My sendmail.conf looks like this:

DAEMON_PARMS="-bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn -ODeliveryMode=queueonly OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in";

And this is my MailScanner configuration:

Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue.in
Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue
Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

And my Incoming Work Dir is of the type:

none            /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming tmpfs defaults 0 0

Sendmail is working fine and I've set in my sendmail.conf an interval of
10: QUEUE_INTERVAL="10";

It looks like the process works ok. When an email is sent, it is processed by sendmail an then left in the queue for MailScanner (Queue Scan Interval = 4). MailScanner then analize it with the antivirus(clamav) and spamassasin. In the log file everything seems to look just fine, but there 
are still some qf left (not all of them) in /var/spool/mqueue.in/ and 
they're accumulating there.

I have noticed which increasing this value

#Queue Scan Interval = 4
Queue Scan Interval = 20

it lowers I number of qf forgotten, lost.

it seems there's a conflict when sendmail and MailScanner both use a file at the same time in mqueue.in/



Thanks in advance.
Pardon my English.



-- 

Sergio Santos
Departamento Técnico Meditex
Grupo SANED
Telf: 0034 91 749 9500/04
Madrid (Spain)




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