MailScanner children dying and not picking up new mail

[Julian Field]

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Please can you try the attached patch for /usr/sbin/MailScanner. It
should apply successfully to most recent versions, as this file changes
pretty rarely.

Please let me know how you get on, if my hunch is correct then it should
help.

Brent Emerson wrote:

>I'm seeing the same behavior that was reported by Nigel Kennedy in the
>thread "MailScanner occasionally not picking up from the hold queue" and
>which is detailed in Debian bug #305239
>(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305239): An MS child
>dies of old age, another child is spawned, and the new process never picks
>up any messages from the hold queue.  Eventually, all my MS children are
>in state "sleeping" and all incoming mail accumulates in the hold queue.
>A stop/start restores things to normal.  The problem almost always seems
>to occur exactly 4 hours after my automated 23:10 MS restart (3:10am),
>when system load is low.
>
>My system: FreeBSD 4.9, Postfix 2.2.2, MailScanner 4.41.3, SpamAssassin
>3.0.3, ClamAV 0.85.  Most or all of my relevant perl modules are the
>latest versions, which in some cases may be later than what Julian
>recommends.
>
>Has there been a resolution/diagnosis of this yet?  Any clues?  Any debug
>work I can do?
>
>Brent Emerson
>
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