MailScanner children dying and not picking up new mail

[Julian Field]

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Interesting that it is also happening with sendmail. That helps.

Rob wrote:

> I have experianced this too...
>
> Fedore core 2 , mailscanner-4.40.11-1
> sendmail 8.12.11, spamassassin-3.0.3-3_22.1.rhfc2.at
>
>
> I now restart mailscanner every hour via cron because of this...
>
> Rob...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: MailScanner children dying and not picking up new mail
>
>
>> I have not been able to reproduce this problem. Sorry.
>>
>> Dirk Rieger wrote:
>>
>>> I encountered an similar error on a x86-gentoo-machine after
>>> updating to
>>> the
>>> actual mailscanner version
>>> after a few hours the mailscanner simply don't take the mail out of the
>>> hold
>>> folder and needs to be restarted to work again. until version
>>> 4.42.7-1 the
>>> bug still exists :(
>>>
>>> spamassassin 3.0.2,clamav 0.83,postfix 2.1.5
>>
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