Troubleshooting questions

[Mike Kercher]

jester wrote:
> I too am having the same problem. In trying to trace this problem we
> have tried turning off SA, Razor and DSPAM, and only using RBL checks
> and the mqueue.in is still continually climbing. After I restart
> MailScanner it seems to run fine and clear queue in a few minutes,
> but, after running for over an hour, the queue.in will climb back to
> over 1k (almost like something is dying, but no idea as to what is).
> I have checked razor in dbug and shows to be ok, same with SA. I have
> run MailScanner in debug and all seems fine. I have no idea what
> could be causing this.
>
> Using MailScanner 4.3.3
> SA 3.0.2
> DSPAM 3.2.4
> RedHat 1gig memory
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> thanks
> Michael
>
>
> At 09:03 AM 1/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Hi, thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.
>>
>> I am getting a HUGHE (40,000 ) buildup of messages in mqueue.in. In
>> reviewing the logs (/var/log/maillog), I see a lot of information
>> about MCP scanning, I have this set to "no" in my MailScanner.conf ,
>> should I be seeing any activity for MCP with this disabled?
>>
>> Anyone else expierience this problem? Any ideas what to look at?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Carl
>>
>> --
>> <http://www.spyderinternet.com/>SpyderNethas scanned this message for
>> viruses and dangerous content. ------------------------ MailScanner
>> list ------------------------
>> To unsubscribe, email
>> <jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.htm>jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
>> 'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
>> Before posting, read the MAQ
>> (<http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/>http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/)
>> and the archives
>>
(<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk
/lists/mailscanner.html).
>>
>>
>> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>
> ------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------ To
> unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words: 'leave
> mailscanner' in the body of the email.
> Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
> the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).
>
> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!

Are either of you running the bigevil ruleset by chance?  local caching
nameserver?  What is the system load?

Mike

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!