4.39.3-1 bug or is it me?

[Quentin Campbell]

Julian

In the case of spam the usual action is taken, namely to deliver the
tagged message as an attachment. That is happening OK and for this to
work the ~reports/en/inline.spam.warning.txt file must be readable. It
clearly is. 

However it appears that after the message is delivered I get a
"MailScanner child dying of old age" message logged.

The problem with the "Cannot open message file , No such file or
directory" error is only apparent when a virus is detected. It seems
that MS goes as far as sending the virus notification to the "Notices To
=" address but then the failure occurs. 

Looking at MessageBatch.pm it is as if there is a failure return from
the attempt to post the notice but the failure message cannot be logged
and execution fails at that point.

Looking at the code excerpt from MessageBatch.pm below I note that I am
not seeing in the logs the "Could not notify postmaster from ..." text
that I should get if the attempt to post fails and returns an error
number in $!. 

Nor am I seeing the "Notices: Warned about <number> messages ...". I
would expect to see immediately after the posting of the notice.

The behaviours in the case of both spam delivery and when a virus notice
is delivered to the "Notices To =" address suggests that MS is getting a
failure from an attempt to post a message and the code that handles that
posting is not returning to the caller.