MailScanner chokes

hermit921 hermit921 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 26 18:53:25 GMT 2006


At 04:55 PM 1/25/2006, Scott Silva wrote:
>hermit921 spake the following on 1/25/2006 4:36 PM:
> > We are starting to see a problem on 1 or 2 of our three MailScanner
> > systems where mail starts accumulating in the hold queue.  We tried
> > various things, with little success.  Turning off spamassassin in
> > MailScanner made no difference.  Stopping MailScanner and starting
> > postfix, then doing postsuper -H ALL followed by postfix flush pushes
> > out all the messages.  Of course this bypasses MailScanner.
> >
> > In Debug mode, we get the following, which isn't much.  We waited
> > several minutes and this output never changed.  Any ideas what is wrong?
> >
>Could the database be full? Corrupted? The file system the database is on full
>or out of inodes?
>Try and remove the call to the MailWatch logging module, and see if things
>clear up. That should clear up any doubt about the database being the culprit.
>
>--

We had changed the Always Looked Up Last line to no, but that made no 
difference.  The system has lots of free disk space, inodes, etc.

hermit921




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