Problem with MailScanner failing to process mqueue.in mail

[Jim Holland]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, I wrote

> I have been running MailScanner 4.35.9-1 with Sendmail 8.13.1 without any
> problems from November until this evening.  Suddenly the volume of mail in
> the mqueue.in directory started to increase without explanation, and while
> most mail is being delivered successfully, more and more messages are
> just being repeatedly reprocessed without being delivered.  See log for a
> typical message below.

I append another example of the problem.  This is interesting as it
involves a message flagged as spam.  It is being repeatedly saved in the
quarantine folder (copying over older copies of itself), but is never
moved out of mqueue.in.

Regards

Jim Holland
System Administrator
MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service

Jan  6 22:39:40 mail sendmail[17787]: j06KdV53017787: from=<user at ProcessRequest.com>, size=33199, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<20050106143548691 at DAL1BS070>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=dal1bs070.processrequest.com [216.39.67.120]
Jan  6 22:39:40 mail sendmail[17787]: j06KdV53017787: to=<user at mango.zw>, delay=00:00:07, mailer=esmtp, pri=63199, stat=queued
Jan  6 22:40:00 mail MailScanner[11052]: RBL checks: j06KdV53017787 found in reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:40:00 mail MailScanner[11052]: Message j06KdV53017787 from 216.39.67.120 (reedconstr-e2-4005916 at processrequest.com) to mango.zw is spam, reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:41:25 mail MailScanner[11052]: Spam Actions: message j06KdV53017787 actions are devnull at fido.mango.zw,forward,store
Jan  6 22:42:24 mail MailScanner[11317]: RBL checks: j06KdV53017787 found in reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:42:24 mail MailScanner[11317]: Message j06KdV53017787 from 216.39.67.120 (reedconstr-e2-4005916 at processrequest.com) to mango.zw is spam, reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:42:56 mail MailScanner[11317]: Spam Actions: message j06KdV53017787 actions are devnull at fido.mango.zw,forward,store
Jan  6 22:43:20 mail MailScanner[11218]: RBL checks: j06KdV53017787 found in reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:43:20 mail MailScanner[11218]: Message j06KdV53017787 from 216.39.67.120 (reedconstr-e2-4005916 at processrequest.com) to mango.zw is spam, reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:43:43 mail MailScanner[11218]: Spam Actions: message j06KdV53017787 actions are devnull at fido.mango.zw,forward,store
Jan  6 22:44:07 mail MailScanner[19384]: RBL checks: j06KdV53017787 found in reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:44:07 mail MailScanner[19384]: Message j06KdV53017787 from 216.39.67.120 (reedconstr-e2-4005916 at processrequest.com) to mango.zw is spam, reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:44:38 mail MailScanner[19384]: Spam Actions: message j06KdV53017787 actions are devnull at fido.mango.zw,forward,store
Jan  6 22:45:34 mail MailScanner[11132]: RBL checks: j06KdV53017787 found in reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:45:34 mail MailScanner[11132]: Message j06KdV53017787 from 216.39.67.120 (reedconstr-e2-4005916 at processrequest.com) to mango.zw is spam, reynolds-t1
Jan  6 22:46:05 mail MailScanner[11132]: Spam Actions: message j06KdV53017787 actions are devnull at fido.mango.zw,forward,store

etc etc

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