spam scanning blocked regularly

[augustin siaens]

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Hi there,

It appears that my MailScanner has some problems. Every 2 days, it seems 
that MailScanner doesn't scan mail anymore for spams (antivirus seems 
OK). I have to stop the server, then I also have to stop sendmail (I 
know I shouldn't but it seems to be ON). Once I restart MailScanner 
scanning is OK. I don't understand what is wrong and more importantly 
how to spot the problem. In the log everything seems fine and then 
suddenly no more scanning!

here are the running processes

[root at server1 root]# ps aux | grep mail
smmsp    28794  0.0  0.1  7296 1996 ?        S    Oct04   0:00 sendmail: 
Queue runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root      6377  0.0  0.2  7700 2592 ?        S    08:40   0:00 sendmail: 
accepting connections                             
smmsp     6382  0.0  0.2  7628 2264 ?        S    08:40   0:00 sendmail: 
Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue 
root      6388  0.0  0.2  6992 2352 ?        S    08:40   0:00 sendmail: 
Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
root      6389  0.0  0.2  7736 3008 ?        S    08:40   0:00 sendmail: 
./j935jSwC007162 mail.spamrejection.com.: client DATA status
root      6503  0.0  0.0  4608  688 pts/0    S    08:53   0:00 grep mail

Ususally I was killing these processes and scanning was back on track 
but restarting server (yes, sendmail too) seems to do the trick.

sendmail 8.12.10
MailScanner 4.45
SA 3.1

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Augustin Siaens
AQUADEV
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1180 Bruxelles - Brussel
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Fax: +32 2 347 00 36

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