Inaccurate Queue Amount?

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Mike Kercher wrote:
> I started noticing in the past few days that the number of messages in the
> incoming queue is not correct for some reason.  My logs show this:
>
> Oct 15 22:43:08 avwall2 MailScanner[2760]: New Batch: Found 14 messages
> waiting
> Oct 15 22:43:08 avwall2 MailScanner[2760]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
> 1252 bytes
> Oct 15 22:43:08 avwall2 MailScanner[2760]: Spam Checks: Starting
> Oct 15 22:43:08 avwall2 MailScanner[2760]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Oct 15 22:43:08 avwall2 MailScanner[2760]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
>
> But there aren't 14 messages in the queue:
>

http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/#waiting

> [root at avwall2 /etc/MailScanner] #ls -al /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/
> total 4
> drwxrwxrwt   12 root     root          240 Oct 15 22:44 .
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 May 20 19:37 ..
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:42 2754
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:43 2760
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:43 2769
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:43 2775
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:43 2785
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:43 2792
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:44 2799
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:44 2821
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:44 2826
> drwx------    2 root     root           40 Oct 15 22:44 2829
>
> If I stop MailScanner, the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming directory becomes
> empty.  Start the service again, and I have 14 messages waiting again.  I
> even tried a reboot...same result.  Am I missing something somewhere?
>
> I've also started getting a few messages in my Inbox that have:
>
> <<< No Message Collected >>>
>
> in the body...nothing else.  Related?
>
>
> Mike
>
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