mqueue.in just gets bigger - no delivery?

[DAve]

Brett Charbeneau wrote:
> 
>     Thanks for your response, Logan! I appreciate it.
> 
>> First question:  when you start MailScanner, does it successfully
>> start and stay running?
> 
>     Yes. It forks off and chews up CPU time quite happily.
> 
>> Next question:  does it spawn children?  Look at the output of
>> "ps -ef | grep MailScanner" to see if it does.
> 
>     Yepper:
> 
> franklin:/var/backups# ps -ef | grep MailScanner
> root     29629     1  0 10:01 ?        00:00:00 MailScanner: starting 
> children
> root     29630 29629 26 10:01 ?        00:00:08 MailScanner: starting 
> children
> root     29656 29629 28 10:01 ?        00:00:06 MailScanner: starting 
> children
> root     29681 29629 22 10:01 ?        00:00:02 MailScanner: starting 
> children
> 
>> Next question:  does it appear to be processing messages?  What is
>> it logging to syslog?  (Do a "grep MailScanner /var/log/maillog" or
>> similar.)
> 
>     It seems to.
>     If I set "Scan Messages = no" in MailScanner.conf, mail flows 
> without inspection just fine.
>     Here's some syslog with Scan Messages = yes
> 
> Aug 30 10:01:44 franklin MailScanner[29656]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus 
> Scanner version 4.51.5 starting...
> Aug 30 10:01:45 franklin MailScanner[29656]: Read 710 hostnames from the 
> phishing whitelist
> Aug 30 10:01:45 franklin MailScanner[29656]: Config: calling custom init 
> function MailWatchLogging
> Aug 30 10:01:45 franklin MailScanner[29656]: Started SQL Logging child
> Aug 30 10:01:46 franklin MailScanner[29656]: Using SpamAssassin results 
> cache
> Aug 30 10:01:46 franklin MailScanner[29656]: Connected to SpamAssassin 
> cache database
> Aug 30 10:01:46 franklin MailScanner[29656]: Enabling SpamAssassin 
> auto-whitelist functionality...
> Aug 30 10:01:55 franklin MailScanner[29681]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus 
> Scanner version 4.51.5 starting...
> Aug 30 10:01:55 franklin MailScanner[29681]: Read 710 hostnames from the 
> phishing whitelist
> Aug 30 10:01:55 franklin MailScanner[29681]: Config: calling custom init 
> function MailWatchLogging
> Aug 30 10:01:56 franklin MailScanner[29681]: Started SQL Logging child
> Aug 30 10:01:56 franklin MailScanner[29681]: Using SpamAssassin results 
> cache
> Aug 30 10:01:56 franklin MailScanner[29681]: Connected to SpamAssassin 
> cache database
> Aug 30 10:01:56 franklin MailScanner[29681]: Enabling SpamAssassin 
> auto-whitelist functionality...
> Aug
> 

Are you using MailWatch? If so you should also be seeing log lines like so,

Aug 30 10:24:59 avhost1 MailScanner[81205]: Logging message 
k7UEOgje096953 to SQL

Try setting "Always Looked Up Last = no" in MailScanner.conf and see if 
the problem persists. Not that I think MailWatch is the issue, but 
removing config changes is always a good place to start troubleshooting.

DAve


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