Same email processed 268 times!

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Apr 9 22:24:02 IST 2006


If that doesn't fix it, send me the qf+df files of the message along 
with your MailScanner.conf (without the comments) and I will try to see 
if I can reproduce the problem myself.

Max Kipness wrote:
> Thanks for the response, will do. My version is indeed 4.51.5.
>
> Max
>
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:37:54 +0100, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>   
>> You need to upgrade, there was a bug in the version you are running
>> (4.51.5?).
>>
>> Max Kipness wrote:
>>     
>>> 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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