Help! [MailScanner] <defunct>

[Mordur Ingolfsson]

I had the same problem. I tried everything suggested in this thread and
more, f.ex. downgrading to Debian version stable, (4.41.3-2) but that
one wont even start. Not a single complaint or anything in syslog. Just
nothing. 

Since the incoming mailqueue was filling up and nobody got their mail
yesterday, I made exim deliver directly from the incoming queue and thus
cleared it., but all went unscanned, of course.   I have since had
mailscanner working allright, it seems. There are consistently 4-5
zombie mailscanner processes now, but mail gets delivered and there are
5 normal, or "unzombied" processes waiting.

It seems that whenever a batch gets scanned the mailscanner process
handling int gets zombied. Is this normal?


Arthur Sherman wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>>> root      3173  0.2  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   
>>>       
>> 0:00 [MailScanner]
>>     
>>> <defunct>
>>> ---
>>>       
>> This is the intended behavio(u)r for MailScanner when 
>> restarting (every 
>> 4 hours by default).. see the "Restart Every" parameter in 
>> MailScanner.conf
>>     
>
>
> But I have never seen this before when running MS...
> And the mail doesn't flow.
>
>   
>> But, if you notice this all the time, then it could be the dreaded 
>> 'tnef' error..
>>     
>
> I have just upgraded to latest beta version 4.55.7, as Raymond suggested, to
> avoid TNEF error.
> This didn't help.
>
>   
>> You do not mention version of MS and MTA.. please post more details.
>>     
>
> Sendmail 8.13.1 (BlueQuartz on CentOS 4.3)
> Standard compliant: yum etc.
>
>   
>> - dhawal
>>     
>
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Arthur Sherman
>
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