Same email processes 268 times!

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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
>
>   
File locking (should be posix, I think)?
Try setting "max children" to 1, temporarily, and see what happens. Be 
sure to get move the files in the queue somewhere else temporarily as 
well, just for testing.