Mail stuck in incoming queue of MailScanner

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Wolf
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:29 AM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Mail stuck in incoming queue of MailScanner
> 
> Hi List.
> 
> I had a good running setup with UUCP-Postfix-MailScanner-Cyrus on
> Debian unstable.
> >From one day to the next the mails got stuck in the incoming queue of MS.
> 
> Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> 
> It started suddenly with this enty im the logs:
> ...
> May 29 15:21:08 bio postfix: Process did not exit cleanly, returned
> 255 with signal 0
> 
> There isnt even a process named postfix! Postfixes processes got other
> names like master...
> 
> I already searched for this error-message but didnt find a satisfying
> answer. Any Ideas?
> 
> MS restartet right after the postfix-message:
> 
> May 29 15:21:08 bio MailScanner[8876]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.46.2 starting...
> 
> And it checks the same 5 mails again.
> 
> May 29 15:21:08 bio MailScanner[8876]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.46.2 starting...
> May 29 15:21:10 bio MailScanner[8876]: Read 676 hostnames from the
> phishing whitelist
> May 29 15:21:11 bio MailScanner[8876]: Enabling SpamAssassin
> auto-whitelist functionality...
> May 29 15:21:12 bio MailScanner[8876]: Using locktype = flock
> May 29 15:21:12 bio MailScanner[8876]: New Batch: Scanning 5 messages,
> 130613 bytes
> May 29 15:21:12 bio MailScanner[8876]: MCP Checks completed at 130613
> bytes per second
> May 29 15:21:12 bio MailScanner[8876]: Spam Checks: Starting
> May 29 15:21:14 bio MailScanner[8876]: Spam Checks completed at 65306
> bytes per second
> May 29 15:21:14 bio MailScanner[8876]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> ....
> May 29 15:21:14 bio MailScanner[8876]: Filename Checks: Allowing
> 144A676998.4C336 msg-8876-7.txt
> May 29 15:21:14 bio MailScanner[8876]: Filename Checks: Allowing
> 144A676998.4C336 PM-DAS-UNGASS.pdf (no rule matched)
> ..
> May 29 15:21:14 bio MailScanner[8876]: <A> tag found in message
> CF3267699E.00C19 from laxxxxxxxn at laxxxxxxxxxxx.de
> May 29 15:21:14 bio MailScanner[8876]: Virus Scanning completed at
> 130613 bytes per second
> May 29 15:21:16 bio CRON[5953]: (pam_unix) session closed for user root
> May 29 15:21:19 bio postfix: Process did not exit cleanly, returned
> 255 with signal 0
> 
> This will go ad infinitum. Incoming queue is filling up.
> 
> Workaround was to bypass MailScanner in main.cf (of Postfix)
> 
> So ist there a mail that MS cant scan and causes this error?
> --
> Wolf Hees

This is a known problem with older versions of MailScanner and Postfix.
You're running version 4.46.2. Simply upgrade to the latest stable version
and the problem should be resolved.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com