MailScanner not processing mail, appears to keep dying...
Kevin Hanser
Kevin at MICA.NET
Sat Jan 22 01:54:12 GMT 2005
Thanks for the quick reply, Julian.
Well, I put it into debug mode as you suggested, and ran the
check_mailscanner script, and it started printing out a _bunch_ of
spamassassin "debug:" messages (scrolling too fast for me to see).
However, I just went and ran the mailscanner install.sh script again to
reinstall, and now it's processing messages.
Weeeeird....
Hey, I don't care though, as long as it works :)
Thanx!
k
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 6:03 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner not processing mail, appears to keep dying...
>
> 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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