MailScanner stopped processing Mail

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Thu Nov 25 15:45:38 GMT 2004


Sanjay K. Patel wrote:

> As of 10:30 am yesterday MailScanner has stopped processing mail. We have
> mail in both mqueue's. Last thing we see saw in MailWatch is that panda
> antivirus detected a denial of service and started tagging all e-mail's as
> viruses. We removed virus cleaning from MailScanner but still no luck mail
> is coming in and getting queued. But not delivered either locally or to the
> internet. Nothing gets logged in the database either.
>
> If I stop MailScanner and run sendmail than mail works without a problem.
>
> I cant figure out what is wrong. We are running MailScanner on Redhat Es3.
>
> -SKP
>
>
Sanjay

anything in the maillogs?

what happens if you enable both debugs in the MailScanner.conf and run
checkmailscanner?

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Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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