Max Children > 1: same message gets delivered more than once

[Martin Hepworth]

Beat

sounds like the file locking is messed up. What MTA (and vesrion)are you
running and what have you got in Mailfcanner.conf for "Lock Type ="?

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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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Beat Jucker wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I'm new to MailScanner. I have installed version 4.41.3 @ Solaris 9.
> Everything works except configuration parameter "Max Children":
>
>   - when I define "Max Children = 1" there is one child started and
>     the message gets delivered once
>     --> OK
>
>   - when I define e.g. "Max Children = 3" there are three children started
>     *BUT* the same message gets delivered also N times (in this case N=3) ...
>     --> NOK
>
> I don't know how the children of MailScanner manages the processing of
> the messages in the hold queue (I'm using postfix but this shouldn't matter).
> Do I have a MailScanner locking problem?
>
> Thanks for any help
> -- Beat
>
> Logfile:
>
> May  9 14:21:35 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.41.3 starting...
> May  9 14:21:36 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: Read 120 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
> May  9 14:21:36 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: User's home directory /home/postfix does not exist
> May  9 14:21:36 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: Using locktype = flock
> May  9 14:21:46 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.41.3 starting...
> May  9 14:21:47 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: Read 120 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
> May  9 14:21:47 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: User's home directory /home/postfix does not exist
> May  9 14:21:47 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: Using locktype = flock
> May  9 14:22:05 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 784 bytes
> May  9 14:22:05 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: Saved archive copies of 5404E76C0A.D0460
> May  9 14:22:05 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: Spam Checks: Starting
> May  9 14:22:05 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> May  9 14:22:06 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 784 bytes
> May  9 14:22:06 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: Saved archive copies of 5404E76C0A.0DEC5
> May  9 14:22:06 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: Spam Checks: Starting
> May  9 14:22:06 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> May  9 14:22:10 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: Requeue: 5404E76C0A.D0460 to D092576C2C
> May  9 14:22:10 cicero2 MailScanner[11542]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
> May  9 14:22:10 cicero2 postfix/qmgr[10793]: [ID 197553 mail.info] D092576C2C: from=<root at glue.ch>, size=644, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> May  9 14:22:10 cicero2 postfix/smtp[11557]: [ID 197553 mail.info] D092576C2C: to=<bj+mailtest at glue.ch>, relay=ns.glue.ch[193.72.194.3], delay=9, status=sent (250 Ok: queued as 0F45857C87)
> May  9 14:22:10 cicero2 postfix/qmgr[10793]: [ID 197553 mail.info] A03EB76C2C: from=<root at glue.ch>, size=644, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> May  9 14:22:10 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: Requeue: 5404E76C0A.0DEC5 to A03EB76C2C
> May  9 14:22:10 cicero2 MailScanner[11541]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
> May  9 14:22:11 cicero2 postfix/smtp[11557]: [ID 197553 mail.info] A03EB76C2C: to=<bj+mailtest at glue.ch>, relay=ns.glue.ch[193.72.194.3], delay=10, status=sent (250 Ok: queued as 88A3857C87)
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