MailScanner now on the fritz

[Martin Hepworth]

Dave

have you tried turning off AWL in SA? I find a real PITA esp with SA 3.x.

in spam.assassin.prefs.conf set

use_auto_whitelist      0



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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Dave Duffner - PSCGi wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>         Apparently gone from bad to worse.  Determined we're
> running MS 4.31.6, on an Ensim Pro box w/FC1, SA, ClamAV, etc.
> We had reports from late yesterday and this morning that some
> e-mail was taking over an hour to be delivered, even from 2
> accounts within the same box.  So we took a look and found
> some serious problems cropping up:
>
>         Since the last Ensim Pro upgrade from 4.02-XX to 4.03-XX,
> which apparently modified MailScanner (and other elements) in
> some way, this sucker's just not right.
>
>         The AWL issue still remains, randomly tags those who
> apparently must be in an existing AWL file somewhere, that
> seriously needs to be flushed as the AWL adjustment is always
> a positive number (usually massive like in the 100's) and
> instantly earns the e-mail a spam tag.
>
>         In trying to perform the -v or --help commands, it turns
> up errors regarding the lack of some config file as specified
> in line 575 of the Config.pm file.  According to posts, that
> shouldn't be the case, those commands should produce a result.
>
>         Now, since changing the SpamAssassin and AWL tags in
> the conf files, we're suddenly seeing (using top) a constant
> stream of zombie processes and 'defunct' MailScanner processes
> running.
>
>         Kill the PID, new one comes up.  Should be running 5-8
> processes tops, wants to run 12.  At least 5 are zombies and
> keep respawning.  The top report shows them as MailScanner <defunct>
> and zombied process.  Strange part is that one of the processes
> seems to run just fine?
>
>         Top that off with the fact that after changing the conf
> files to the recently suggested 'disarm' to prevent MS from
> nailing 'script in HTML' mail, that's back again?
>
>         Restarted services multiple times, rebooted the server
> to ensure everything is reset properly.  All that, zombies
> and defunct's abound.
>
>         Any clues out there?
>
>
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