Same email processed 268 times!

[Mike Kercher]

I've seen the same thing before on ONE of many servers.  My solution was
to set my High Scoring Spam Action to forward to /dev/null.  If I set
the action to delete, some messages would get processed over and over
again until the system came to it's knees.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Max Kipness
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:55 PM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Same email processed 268 times!
> 
> 
> Hello -
> 
> I've been trying desperately to figure out why my MailScanner 
> queues are so large and cpu is pegged at 100%. When looking 
> through the log I finally figured out what part of the 
> problem might be. Some messages are being processed hundreds 
> of times. I grepped for one messagaes and was processed 268 
> times, so basically I see this (the repetitive part):
> 
> Apr  3 09:08:31 xxx MailScanner[19835]: Spam Actions: message 
> k33E61uc020656 actions are store Apr  3 09:10:11 xxx 
> MailScanner[21099]: RBL checks: k33E61uc020656 found in
> SBL+XBL
> Apr  3 09:10:11 xxx MailScanner[21099]: SpamAssassin cache 
> hit for message
> k33E61uc020656
> Apr  3 09:10:11 xxx MailScanner[21099]: Message k33E61uc020656 from
> 218.144.251.15 (jonah.rivas_yx at mo
> en.com) to xxx.com is spam, SBL+XBL, SpamAssassin 
> (score=28.338, required 6,
> BAYES_99 3.50, DATE_IN_
> FUTURE_12_24 2.77, DCC_CHECK 2.17, DIGEST_MULTIPLE 0.77, 
> FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14, MIME_BASE64_NO_NAME 0.22 , 
> MIME_BASE64_TEXT 1.89, PYZOR_CHECK 3.70, RATWARE_NAME_ID 
> 4.10, RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 0.50, RAZOR2_CF_ RANGE_E4_51_100 
> 1.50, RAZOR2_CHECK 0.50, RCVD_IN_DSBL 2.60, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL 
> 1.95, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 2.
> 05)
> 
> This has repeated 268 times with only an increment of a few 
> seconds in the time.
> 
> Other messages, including non-spam seem to function just fine 
> and are processed once.
> 
> I'm using the latest MailScanner, SA, DCC, Pyzor. This is a 
> new build from a week ago, so something I guess could be 
> configured wrong.
> 
> Thanks,
> Max
> --
> Thanks,
> 
> Max
> 
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