Problem with MailScanner failing to process mqueue.in mail

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 7 08:45:02 GMT 2005


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Jim Holland wrote:

>Hi Julian
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>
>
>>On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, I wrote
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>
>The problem seems to have been solved by moving a specific problem message
>out of the mail queue.  There were a number of similar messages from the
>same source, and it seems that each time they sent a message then it
>caused the failure.  Would it be helpful to send you a copy of one of the
>messages for analysis?  It would definitely be unwise to send it to the
>list as it would clearly cause problems for other people.
>
>
The latest release fixed one problem in this area (new version of
MIME-tools). If (and only if) you are running MIME-tools 5.415, then
upgrade to MIME-tools 5.416.

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