Same email processed 268 times!

[Max Kipness]

Is this some kind of bug? I have my high-score set to store. As I last resort I guess I could send to /dev/null, but I'm hoping there is some other solution.

Thanks,
Max

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:28:31 -0500, "Mike Kercher" <mike at vesol.com> wrote:
> 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
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>>
>> Max
>>
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Thanks,

Max