Sendmail Upgrade, new thread

[Roger Jochem]

Hello all!

I finally found the problem with my mail server with messages sended with an 
empty body (problem related in the e-mail bellow).

Turn's out that MailScanner is fine, sendmail is fine,  and the problem was 
with Mailwatch.

There is a php script in /usr/local/bin called "mailq" that reads the mail 
queue to show in Mailwatch frontend. This script runs every minute, and it 
locks the messages (sometimes), and because of that MailScanner sends the 
empty messages (with the locking error) and then after that the normal 
(full) message. I turned that script off and now everything is working 
fine... What a fight...

Is there something I have to do with that script to make it run with 
sendmail 8.13 ?

Regards

Roger Jochem

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Jochem" <roger at rudnick.com.br>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:58 AM
Subject: Sendmail Upgrade, new thread


> 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)
>
> Shrek-m googled (I'm was told this is acepptable now : "googled") my 
> problem and found a similar one, and the solution was to decrease the max 
> children in MailScanner.conf to a single one.
>
> I did that, but the obvious problem that this created is that when lots of 
> mails come in, MailScanner became extremly slow, and users wait 20 minutes 
> or more to receive a single message.
>
> So, today I turned that back, to my usual number of childrens. And, 
> obviuosly, my problem returned, some messages are received twice.
>
> Other info, Julian asked me for the info returned by 
> sendmail -d0.1 -d0.4 -bt < /dev/null
>
> That returned:
>
> Version 8.13.6
> Compiled with: DNSMAP LDAPMAP FSTATMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER
>  MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETUNIX NEWDB NIS
>  PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF SOCKETMAP STARTTLS USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT
> Canonical name: mail.rudnick.com.br
> UUCP nodename: mail.rudnick.com.br
> a.k.a.: mail
> a.k.a.: [172.16.0.1]
>
> Another info I think may be usefull, is that before sendmail 8.13.6, 
> postfix was installed on my machine, but I wasn't using it. Trying to 
> upgrade sendmail to 8.13.6, it told me that sendmail conflicts with 
> postfix. So I removed it. I don't know if that has something to do with my 
> problem...
>
> Any help would be really appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Roger Jochem
>
>
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