MailScanner not functioning

Dave Filchak dfilchak at SYMPATICO.CA
Fri Aug 26 00:25:39 IST 2005


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Hello all,

I have been noticing an increase in spam levels to our users and so I
started going through the logs and determined that it appears as though
MailScanner and SpamAssassin have not been functioning. My bad I think
but I am now trying to figure out what has gone wrong and most
importantly, how to fix it. Here is what I am finding in the log files:

Aug 25 13:57:53 rosewood spamc[15755]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at
127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
Aug 25 13:57:54 rosewood spamc[15755]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at
127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
Aug 25 13:57:55 rosewood spamc[15755]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at
127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
Aug 25 13:57:56 rosewood spamc[15755]: connection attempt to spamd
aborted after 3 retries

Then after I updated to the latest MailScanner, I am seeing this:

Aug 25 15:41:59 rosewood sendmail[23231]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Aug 25 15:41:59 rosewood sendmail[23231]: daemon MTA: problem creating
SMTP socket
Aug 25 15:42:04 rosewood sendmail[23231]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Aug 25 15:42:04 rosewood sendmail[23231]: daemon MTA: problem creating
SMTP socket

I also continue to see the first set of errors so it appears as
SpamAssassinh is screwed as well. When I run cat /var/log/maillog | grep
MailScanner, I get nothing from the logs.

Any help is truly appreciated. Thanks

Dave

Here is my config:

This is MailScanner version 4.44.6
Module versions are:
1.00    AnyDBM_File
1.14    Archive::Zip
1.01    Carp
1.119   Convert::BinHex
1.00    DirHandle
1.04    Fcntl
2.71    File::Basename
2.05    File::Copy
2.01    FileHandle
1.05    File::Path
0.13    File::Temp
1.29    HTML::Entities
3.45    HTML::Parser
2.30    HTML::TokeParser
1.20    IO
1.09    IO::File
1.122   IO::Pipe
1.50    Mail::Header
3.05    MIME::Base64
5.417   MIME::Decoder
5.417   MIME::Decoder::UU
5.417   MIME::Head
5.417   MIME::Parser
3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
5.417   MIME::Tools
0.10    Net::CIDR
1.05    POSIX
1.75    Socket
0.03    Sys::Syslog
1.02    Time::localtime

Optional module versions are:
1.806   DB_File
1.10    Digest
1.01    Digest::HMAC
2.20    Digest::MD5
2.01    Digest::SHA1
0.44    Inline
0.17    Mail::ClamAV
3.000004        Mail::SpamAssassin
missing Mail::SPF::Query
missing Net::CIDR::Lite
0.48    Net::DNS
missing Net::LDAP
1.94    Parse::RecDescent
missing SAVI
missing Sys::Hostname::Long
2.26    Test::Harness
0.47    Test::Simple
1.89    Text::Balanced
1.21    URI

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