Error: Failed to link message body between queues

[Julian Field]

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You need to set "Lock Type = posix" in MailScanner.conf.
In sendmail 8.13 they have changed the default locking type on Linux
systems.

Jim Holland wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I am running mailscanner-4.31.6-1 on Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
>with kernel 2.4.20-28.7.
>
>I wonder if anyone could advise on the above error, which has appeared
>twice in the maillog today after an upgrade from the Red Hat
>sendmail-8.11.6 rpm to sendmail-8.13.1 which was compiled from the source
>file: ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.13.1.tar.gz.
>
>The detailed log entries are:
>
>Oct 28 19:46:44 mail MailScanner[10952]: Failed to link message body between queues (/var/spool/mqueue/dfi9SHiYEl003400 --> /var/spool/mqueue.in/dfi9SHiYEl003400)
>
>Oct 28 22:23:02 mail MailScanner[4888]: Failed to link message body between queues (/var/spool/mqueue/dfi9SKLSEO028329 --> /var/spool/mqueue.in/dfi9SKLSEO028329)
>
>In each case the log indicated that the relevant message had been
>delivered, but I wonder if the message was delivered with an empty message
>body as a result.
>
>Any help would be most appreciated.
>
>

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