Sudden problem with MailScanner 4.36.1

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Nov 29 15:06:40 GMT 2004


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Did you run the ./install.sh script to install 4.36.1? If not, you
should have done.

Magda Hewryk wrote:

>Yes, I'm getting the same error on 4.36.1 but I know why ...
>
>I've installed 4.35.11 and had to uninstall it.  I've removed
>MailScanner.rpm (rpm -e - -nodeps) and I re-installed the old  4.36.1
>again.
>That was not a good idea ..  .  I'm getting  the parse messages and the
>postmaster gets the message that "Report: Could not analyze message"
>
>
>Nov 29 08:16:04 xxx  MailScanner[26140]: Cannot parse
>/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/26140/iATDFocq026169.header and , Can't
>locate object method "init" via package "MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint" at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/MIME/Decoder.pm line 179.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Magda Hewryk
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>Hi
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>We are running MailScanner 4.36.1 on three SMTP servers. At 08:50 today,
>one server stopped delievering mail, logging messages like:-
>
>Cannot parse
>/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/29863/1CYiZb-0000Xg-LK.header and ,
>write-open
>/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/29863/1CYiZb-0000Xg-LK/msg-29863-4.txt:
>No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/MIME/Body.pm line 414,
><_GEN_3> line 1159.
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>Nothing obvious happened to trigger the fault, there is no evidence of
>disk problems, lots of freespace on the disks. Everything seems the same
>on the machine that is failing as on those that are working.
>
>Does anyone have any idea where I should be looking for the problem?
>
>Thanks
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