Spam messages processesed several times!

[Julian Field]

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What version of MailScanner are you running? Sorry, you already  
answered that.

Also please put MailScanner into debug mode and run  
check_mailscanner. That should tell you why it is dying.

On 1 Jun 2005, at 07:46, Max Kipness wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have the latest version of MailScanner and Spamassassin.
>
>
>
> Everything was running fine until this morning. The only  
> modifications I
> can think of that were done, were the addition/installation of  
> Razor2 and
> Pyzor, in addition to DCC that I was already running.
>
>
>
> Well, this morning I started noticing that there was always 150 ^Ö 300
> messages waiting to be processed. This with a new server with dual  
> Pentium
> 4 3Ghz processors. Normally I process around 8000 to 10000 spam  
> messages a
> day, but when grepping maillog with the count parameter, I got 57,000!
> Well it seems that each spam message is being processed several times,
> some as many as 83 times. The log will show message XXXXX from IP  
> xxxx is
> spam^Å.actions are store^Å.and then it will start the process for the  
> same
> message over and over again, or around 60 -80 times.
>
>
>
> Anybody ever heard of this?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Max
>
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