Problem with MailScanner failing to process mqueue.in mail

[Peter Bonivart]

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Jim Holland 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.

> Jan  6 22:39:37 mail sendmail[17918]: j06KdaZ7017918: from=<user at mango.zw>, size=8737, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<944800817 at p3775.f1.n7211.z5.ftn>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=fido.mango.zw [192.168.10.1]
> Jan  6 22:39:37 mail sendmail[17918]: j06KdaZ7017918: to=<user at mweb.co.za>, delay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=38737, stat=queued
> Jan  6 22:40:24 mail MailScanner[11052]: Message j06KdaZ7017918 from 192.168.10.1 (heavens at mango.zw) is whitelisted
> Jan  6 22:42:34 mail MailScanner[11317]: Message j06KdaZ7017918 from 192.168.10.1 (heavens at mango.zw) is whitelisted
> Jan  6 22:43:29 mail MailScanner[11218]: Message j06KdaZ7017918 from 192.168.10.1 (heavens at mango.zw) is whitelisted
> Jan  6 22:44:15 mail MailScanner[19384]: Message j06KdaZ7017918 from 192.168.10.1 (heavens at mango.zw) is whitelisted

I'm not sure but it could be a file locking problem since different MS
processes seems to be processing the same message. What lock type do you
use, flock or posix?

--
/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

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