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

[Julian Field]

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This should all work okay if you just leave the Lock Type set to
nothing. That's what everyone else does for Postfix. What version of
Solaris are you running?

Steen, Glenn wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Beat Jucker
>>Sent: den 9 maj 2005 15:05
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Max Children > 1: same message gets delivered more than once
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>This looks fishy. Perhaps worth fixing?-)
>
>
>
>
>>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
>>
>>
>Definitely getting hold of the same message twice... Are you using
>the (recommended) hold feature/1-postfix-setup, or the (old)
>defer/2-postfix-setup?
>
>-- Glenn
>
>
>
>>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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