MailScanner not processing mail, appears to keep dying...

[Julian Field]

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Have you remembered to install SpamAssassin?

Otherwise, in your MailScanner.conf set Debug = yes and Debug
SpamAssassin = yes, then get a couple of messages in your incoming mail
queue and then run "check_MailScanner". It should print out an error
message that says what is going wrong.

Kevin Hanser wrote:

>I am having a strange problem w/a new MailScanner installation... I had
>MailScanner installed on this machine previously, but have recently
>reloaded it.  Strange thing is, it was working @ one time, and I'm not
>sure why it's not now...
>
>
>As far as I can tell, MailScanner keeps dying when it starts up.  I see
>logs like this:
>
>Jan 21 17:54:11 opti MailScanner[32496]: Enabling SpamAssassin
>auto-whitelist functionality...
>Jan 21 17:54:20 opti MailScanner[32499]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>Scanner version 4.37.7 starting...
>Jan 21 17:54:21 opti MailScanner[32499]: Enabling SpamAssassin
>auto-whitelist functionality...
>Jan 21 17:54:36 opti MailScanner[32600]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>Scanner version 4.37.7 starting...
>Jan 21 17:54:38 opti MailScanner[32600]: Enabling SpamAssassin
>auto-whitelist functionality...
>Jan 21 17:54:46 opti MailScanner[32610]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>Scanner version 4.37.7 starting...
>Jan 21 17:54:47 opti MailScanner[32610]: Enabling SpamAssassin
>auto-whitelist functionality...
>
>(over and over and over again)
>
>
>I know mail is coming in, but MailScanner just isn't processing it:
>
>Jan 21 17:55:01 opti sendmail[32616]: j0LMt1UN032616: from=root,
>size=334, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<200501212255.j0LMt1UN032616 at opti.hanser.org>,
>relay=root at localhost
>Jan 21 17:55:01 opti sm-mta[32617]: j0LMt1rd032617:
>from=<root at opti.hanser.org>, size=591, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<200501212255.j0LMt1UN032616 at opti.hanser.org>, proto=ESMTP,
>daemon=MTA, relay=opti.hanser.org [127.0.0.1]
>Jan 21 17:55:02 opti sendmail[32616]: j0LMt1UN032616: to=root,
>ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay,
>pri=30334, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>(j0LMt1rd032617 Message accepted for delivery)
>Jan 21 17:55:06 opti MailScanner[32618]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>Scanner version 4.37.7 starting...
>Jan 21 17:55:07 opti MailScanner[32618]: Enabling SpamAssassin
>auto-whitelist functionality...
>
>
>And my processes look like this:
>
>j at opti j $ ps -ef | grep Mail
>root     31736     1  0 17:50 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
>-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner
>/opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
>root     32138 31736  6 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
>root     32140 31736  8 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
>root     32142 31736 11 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
>root     32144 31736 20 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
>root     32356 31736 67 17:52 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl
>-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner
>/opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
>j        32421 28542  0 17:53 pts/0    00:00:00 grep Mail
>
>
>And then if I wait a few seconds and look @ the processes again, I have:
>
>j at opti j $ ps -ef | grep Mail
>root     31736     1  0 17:50 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
>-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner
>/opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
>root     32138 31736  6 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
>root     32140 31736  8 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
>root     32142 31736 11 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
>root     32144 31736 20 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
>root     32356 31736 71 17:53 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
>j        32443 28542  0 17:53 pts/0    00:00:00 grep Mail
>
>
>Which seems to indicate the process that was starting up @ the bottom of
>the list (32356), is now defunct.
>
>Any ideas on what's going on here...?
>
>Thx!
>
>k
>
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