Emails get stuck in the incoming queue (mqueue.in)

[Julian Field]

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What are your "Spam Actions" and "High Scoring Spam Actions" set to?
What MTA are you using?

Stefan Rapp wrote:

>We have also a problem with our installation over here. We see stuck
>mails in mqueue.in that are processed over and over again. The only
>solution is to move them away by hand.
>
>I tried to get some debug output from mailscanner using some of the
>offending mails (all of them are marked by our virus scanners). The
>last lines are:
>
>format error: can't find EOCD signature
> at /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 568
>format error: can't find EOCD signature
> at /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 568
>Can't call method "print" on an undefined value at /sw/sun4_59/cyrus-2.2.10/lib/
>perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/MIME/Entity.pm line 1824.
>
>The corresponding lines from Entity.pm are:
>
>    ### Singlepart type with parts...
>    ###    This makes $ent->print handle message/rfc822 bodies
>    ###    when parse_nested_messages('NEST') is on [idea by Marc Rouleau].
>    elsif ($self->parts) {
>        my $need_sep = 0;
>        my $part;
>        foreach $part ($self->parts) {
>            $out->print("\n\n") if $need_sep++;
>            $part->print($out);
>        }
>    }
>
>I think the Mailscanner process gets aborted and the same mail are
>processed again from another process. Until now i didn't find a
>single message to reproduce the problem, perhaps tomorrow ...
>
>        Stefan
>
>
>PS: Here is the version output:
>
>Running on
>SunOS mx2 5.9 Generic_118558-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
>This is Perl version 5.008006 (5.8.6)
>
>This is MailScanner version 4.40.6
>Module versions are:
>1.00    AnyDBM_File
>1.14    Archive::Zip
>1.03    Carp
>1.119   Convert::BinHex
>1.00    DirHandle
>1.05    Fcntl
>2.73    File::Basename
>2.08    File::Copy
>2.01    FileHandle
>1.06    File::Path
>0.16    File::Temp
>1.29    HTML::Entities
>3.45    HTML::Parser
>2.30    HTML::TokeParser
>1.21    IO
>1.10    IO::File
>1.123   IO::Pipe
>1.66    Mail::Header
>3.05    MIME::Base64
>5.417   MIME::Decoder
>5.417   MIME::Decoder::UU
>5.417   MIME::Head
>5.417   MIME::Parser
>3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
>5.417   MIME::Tools
>0.10    Net::CIDR
>1.08    POSIX
>1.77    Socket
>0.05    Sys::Syslog
>1.02    Time::localtime
>
>Optional module versions are:
>1.811   DB_File
>1.10    Digest
>1.01    Digest::HMAC
>2.33    Digest::MD5
>2.10    Digest::SHA1
>0.44    Inline
>0.17    Mail::ClamAV
>3.000002        Mail::SpamAssassin
>0.05    Sys::Syslog
>1.02    Time::localtime
>
>Optional module versions are:
>1.811   DB_File
>1.10    Digest
>1.01    Digest::HMAC
>2.33    Digest::MD5
>2.10    Digest::SHA1
>0.44    Inline
>0.17    Mail::ClamAV
>3.000002        Mail::SpamAssassin
>1.997   Mail::SPF::Query
>0.15    Net::CIDR::Lite
>0.48    Net::DNS
>0.32    Net::LDAP
>1.94    Parse::RecDescent
>0.30    SAVI
>1.2     Sys::Hostname::Long
>2.46    Test::Harness
>0.54    Test::Simple
>1.95    Text::Balanced
>1.35    URI
>
>
>+------------------------+--------------------------------------+
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