SOLVED: Re: mailscanner hangs on automatic restart {Scanned}

[Scott Silva]

Glenn Steen spake the following on 10/4/2006 3:55 AM:
> On 04/10/06, Henry Hollenberg <hgh at rcwm.com> wrote:
>> SOLVED: razor-agent.log file in mailscanner incoming queue directory
>> /var/spool/postfix/hold was hanging mailscanner on automatic
>> restart every 14400 seconds. Synopsis top-posted for your convenience.
>> See reply to Drew as bottom-post below. hgh.
>>
> Somewhat a known issue. Good to know what solved it for you though.
> 
>> Drew Marshall wrote:
>> > On Wed, October 4, 2006 01:52, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> (snip)
>> >>Oh!, like the razor-agent file? :
>> >
>> >
>> > Yup, just like that. Never one to say told you so but... :-)
>> >
>> > Having said that, you have fixed the cause so delete that one (Oh I see
>> > from your next message you have. Nice to see you are continuing the
>> > tradition of Postfix users replying to themselves ;-) Keep up the good
>> > work :-> )
>> >
>> > You shuld now have few (No?) problems and a damn sight less Spam.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Drew
>> >
>>
>> Talk to myself alot too, anyway, that seemed to fix it
>> as my mailbox has 21 general emails in it (non-mailing list
>> mails). Damn sight less than the 100+ I was waking up to.
>>
>> 3 were appropriately labeled as SPAM
>> 17 slipped thru
>> 1 valid email about a dead disk at work
> 
> Were those image type spam? I find ImageInfo
> (http://www.rulesemporium.com/plugins.htm) fixes that well for me...
> Or one could do FuzzyOcr (look at the apache spamassassin site...).
> 
>> Thanks for all the help!
> We do what we can:-)
Hey Glenn,
Does the imageinfo plugin load like the old plugins always did, or do you now
have to use a load plugin line in init.pre?

(Not hijacking the thread as Glenn mentioned the plugin above.)


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