MailScanner stops delivering e-mail to Postfix

[Julian Field]

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Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:

> Hi!
>
>> Restarting postfix does not resolve the problem. I was running a dual 
>> 300
>> mhz server with 256 mb of RAM and have now replaced it because I 
>> thought it
>> might be part of the problem. We are now running a AMD 3000+/1gb RAM 
>> unit
>> now. It should have plenty of horsepower to handle MailScanner. There 
>> are
>> currently 17 messages in the queue as I write this. MailScanner is
>> constantly scanning and rescanning these messages over and over again 
>> but
>> they never get sent to the incoming queue. I see this happening on 
>> both the
>> incoming and outgoing e-mail gateways. I'll e-mail the requested 
>> information
>> to Julian directly. I'd rather not send the contents of these 
>> messages to
>> the open list. The lock type is set to flock by default. I am running
>> postfix which is not mentioned in the conf file. Should I switch to 
>> posix?
>
>
> So run them in debug mode, most likely you see whats happening then. 
> It seems it doesnt like some of the messages you have sitting in your 
> incomming dir.

 From what I have been sent, most of this problem is caused by people 
running "TNEF Expander = internal", where they would be better off 
running the external "tnef" program supplied with MailScanner. I believe 
I have fixed this in the latest beta release.

See the "News" section of the home page at www.mailscanner.info and 
there is a patch you can apply to fix this exact problem.

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