Sendmail Upgrade, other problem

Roger Jochem roger at rudnick.com.br
Thu Apr 6 12:07:08 IST 2006


Just for the record, I changed the Max Children configuration to 1 (one) 
yesterday, and now all is working fine. I don't know why that happened, but 
started with Sendmail 8.13.6. Really strange...

Thanks for all the help!

Regards

Roger Jochem

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Jochem" <roger at rudnick.com.br>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: Sendmail Upgrade, other problem


> Thanks!
>
> I really could do that, but I think this would make thinks too slow 
> here... Normaly there are 4 or 5 childrens running, some times even more. 
> But if there is no other solution to that case, I will give that a try.
>
> Regards
>
> Roger Jochem
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <shrek-m at gmx.de>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Sendmail Upgrade, other problem
>
>
>> On 04.04.2006 21:41, Roger Jochem wrote:
>>
>>> Regarding to my problem (bellow) I found the following lines in my 
>>> maillog
>>> srv MailScanner[9596]: Failed to link message body between queues 
>>> (/var/spool/mqueue/dfi8R9KQqf010458 --> 
>>> /var/spool/mqueue.in/dfi8R9KQqf010458)
>>>
>>>>>> On 24 Mar 2006, at 10:23, Roger Jochem wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After the sendmail upgrade to 8.13.6, some of my messages come with 
>>>>>>> no body, and the text "<<< No Message Collected >>>" in the body... 
>>>>>>> They appear twice in the users inbox, one with this body, and one 
>>>>>>> ok message (with the original body).
>>>>>>
>>
>> google
>>
>> http://www.plug.linux.org.au/archives/message/20041025.042133.913c0dbf.html
>> <snip>
>> *Author: *Ryan
>> *Date: * 2004-10-25 06:21 +200
>> *To: *plug
>> *Subject: *[plug] MailScanner children fighting
>>
>> Hi PLUG,
>>
>> I've just upgraded my MailScanner to v4.34.8. Before I knock on their
>> door about this problem I was wondering if anyone has seen it?
>>
>> With the default 5 children running, it appear that sometimes two
>> childen pick up the same message and then whichever finishes last
>> reports an error about it. Below is the output, you can see that two
>> MailScanner processes detect the email waiting, both scan it, then one
>> delivers it and the other one wonders where it went. The leads to 2
>> messages being sent to the recipient, one with the full message, and the
>> other empty saying "<<< No Message Collected >>>"
>>
>> If I reduce the max children to one, things obviously are a touch slower
>> off the mark, but it stops the children fighting over the messages.
>> </snip>
>>
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