MailScanner MailScanner-4.56.8-1 Issue

[Scott Silva]

Duncan Berriman spake the following on 10/30/2006 3:48 PM:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed MailScanner-4.56.8-1 on FC 2. I've used it in the past
> and had no problems however the new version appears to be duplicating mails
> from the /var/spool/mqueue.in/ directory.
> 
> I have ruled out problems with SpamAssasin or Clamav. The problem happens
> fairly randomly but regularly and is reported in the maillog as follows.
> 
> Unlinking /var/spool/mqueue.in/dfk9UGfTcN018060 failed: No such file or
> directory
> 
> The problem can be seen that two MailScanner children are picking the same
> email to process and one completes before the other and hence the error. The
> email is delivered twice, mostly identical but sometimes missing content
> depending on the timing. The 2nd child process reports the problem as the
> file can not be moved since the first has already done it.
> 
> This clearly appears to be some form of locking issue.
> 
> The only way I have currently found to solve the problem is set the children
> to 1 so that its single threaded which is not ideal.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> New to the list so apologies if this a known problem etc but couldn't find
> much on the net.
> 
> Thanks in advance 
> Duncan
>  
> 
> 
Are you using sendmail?
Which version?



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