MailScanner not sending mail to /var/spool/mqueue

[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:

>lester lasad spake the following on 9/8/2005 10:43 AM:
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>>MailScanner version 4.41.3
>>Fedora Core 2
>>spamassassin 3.0.3
>>
>>I have had this problem several times in the past. 
>>Mail is being accepted by my MS server but it is not
>>transferring email from /var/spool/mqueue.in to
>>/var/spool/mqueue.  This causes a major backup on my
>>mail system.  I have bounced the server several times
>>and stopped and started MS but the problem still
>>exists.  Based off of past experience it will probably
>>start working on it's own pretty soon but this has
>>been an issue for the past 10 hours.  I am forced to
>>move the queued messages from /var/spool/mqueue.in to
>>/var/spool/mqueue which also lets all the spam thru
>>because the spam checks are not being done.
>>
>>Does anyone have any insight as to why this happens. 
>>MS is a great product but I can't keep allowing this
>>to happen from time to time.  I've got over 3000 users
>>and  it can get pretty nasty around here when this
>>problem occurs.  Thanks to anyone that may be able to
>>provide some insight.  
>>
>>I'm crunching time right now... so if anyone needs
>>additional info please let me know and I will provide
>>it.  
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>>
>Which MTA? Sendmail? Postfix? Exim? ...?
>If you just move the oldest file in mqueue.in will it start up?
>Any clues in the log?
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>
And what happens if you try running MailScanner in Debug mode? 
Instructions on how to do that are in the wiki at wiki.mailscanner.info.
You basically stop it, set "Debug = yes" in MailScanner.conf and then 
run "check_MailScanner". Does it print any error messages at all? If so, 
what? (Don't worry about EOCD Signature errors, that's harmless rubbish 
from the zip extractor).

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