MailScanner children dying and not picking up new mail

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon May 30 18:51:03 IST 2005


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Scrub that patch. This is going to take a lot more looking at than I
thought.
No immediate solution folks, sorry.

Julian Field wrote:

> 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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