Problem with MailScanner failing to process mqueue.in mail

[Jim Holland]

Hi

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Peter Bonivart 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'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?

Thanks for the feedback.  Since upgrading to sendmail 8.13.1 I changed
from flock to posix as recommended.

I now see previous mail from another user with a similar problem.  I will
go through all that correspondence as well.

Of course I could/should upgrade to the latest version of MailScanner.

Regards

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

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