Sendmail Upgrade, new thread

[Roger Jochem]

Really strange, I guess...

In Google there are lots of problems like mine but no one has a good 
solution....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Peacock" <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Sendmail Upgrade, new thread


> Hi,
>
> Steve Freegard wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:58 -0300, Roger Jochem wrote:
>>> I'm rellating my problem again like Martin asked, to see if anybody 
>>> could help.
>>>
>>> I upgraded sendmail from 8.13.1 to 8.13.6 last week. Since that upgrade, 
>>> I'm receiving some mails twice, one with no body (outlook shows <<< No 
>>> Message Collected >>>) and one complete mail (with the original body). 
>>> Looktype in MailScanner is (and already was before the upgrade) "posix".
>>>
>>> My MailScanner is 4.52.2 and I'm also using spamassassin 3.1.1.
>>>
>>> When this error occurs, I can se in my maillog messages like:
>>>
>>> MailScanner[9596]: Failed to link message body between queues 
>>> (/var/spool/mqueue/dfi8R9KQqf010458 --> 
>>> /var/spool/mqueue.in/dfi8R9KQqf010458)
>>>
>>
>> Are /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/mqueue.in on the same partition?
>
> Use the source Luke!
>
> Although I don't know the definitive answer to this, I have been following 
> this thread with interest.  My interest became so piqued that I decided to 
> track down the error message.
>
> MailScanner/SMDiskStore.pm  in the LinkData subroutine.
>
> The comment states:
>
> # If the link fails for some reason (usually caused by sendmail calling
> # 2 messages the same thing in a very short time), then just skip this
> # message and move on to the next one. This one will get delivered when
> # the previous one with the same name has been delivered.
>
> This uses the Perl link function, which works in the same way as the UNIX 
> hard link.  This does have known problems across file systems.
>
> The other obvious cause could be a problem with locking.
>
>
> -- 
> Anthony Peacock
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