mail not sent

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Meshbah Uddin Ahmed wrote:
> HI,
>  
> i m using postfix (2.1.5-9) + mailscanner (4.41.3-2) +
> clamav in debian. It worked fine.
>  
> Now a days, i m facing prb for sending mail. postfix
> recvd mail, but didnt sent. every 7/8 mins later
> mailscanner restarts automatically and that time mail
> sends and within few secs again stops. during
> restarting mailscanner the log shows-
> 
> MailScanner: Commercial scanner clamav timed out!
> MailScanner: Virus Scanning: ClamAV found 1 infections
> MailScanner: Virus Scanning: Denial Of Service attack
> detected!
> MailScanner: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version
> 4.41.3 starting...
> MailScanner: Read 120 hostnames from the phishing
> whitelist
> MailScanner: Using locktype = flock
>  
> another thing, i have checked by 'ps -ef' and found
> postfix and mailscanner process running.
>  
> when i run,  
> 
> # netstat -an | more
>  
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25        0.0.0.0:*     
> LISTEN
> tcp6       0      0 :::25             :::*          
> LISTEN
>  
> here 25 is listen on tcp and tcp6 ports. i have
> another mail server with same configuration, but there
> only tcp port is listening, not tcp6.
>  
> can u pls help me, where is my problem. how can i get
> rid off here.
> 

Try disabling clamAV and re-starting MailScanner...

>  
> regards
> meshbah
>  
> 
> 
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