Problem with MailScanner failing to process mqueue.in mail

Steve Swaney Steve.Swaney at FSL.COM
Thu Jan 6 21:54:38 GMT 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Peter Bonivart
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:32 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Problem with MailScanner failing to process mqueue.in mail
>
> 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
>


I believe Peter is on the right track here.

Sendmail 8.13.1 should have

        Lock Type = posix

Set in MailScanner.conf

Steve
Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com


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