Random messages stuck in mqueue

[Julian Field]

What is your "Delivery Method =" set to in MailScanner.conf?

Corey McFadden wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> We're experiencing an issue on one of our boxes where messages (a good 
> percentage) are hung in /var/spool/mqueue after being processed by 
> MailScanner.  Even those to be delivered locally will sit for 
> (sometimes) hours until they're finally delivered.
>
> I've never seen this behavior before and something is definitely awry.
>
> Here's the environment:
>
> This is CentOS release 4.5 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.61.7
>
> Executing 'sendmail -q -v' WILL process the stuck messages but can 
> take quite a long time to run because it will try to deliver 
> everything queued in a linear fashion.
>
> Here's a good example of a message hung for more than 10 minutes:
>
> [root at ewrgga-hst01 mqueue]# cat qfl714YqCD027817
> V8
> T1185942893
> K0
> N0
> P32072
> Fbs
> <snip>
> HX-x-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (not cached,
>         score=46.69, required 6, autolearn=spam, BAYES_99 3.50,
>         FH_HOST_ALMOST_IP 1.75, FH_MSGID_01C67 0.00, FM_RATSIGN_1106 3.80,
>         FRT_OFFER2 1.29, FRT_PRICE 3.49, FUZZY_OFFERS 1.25,
>         FUZZY_SOFTWARE 3.47, HELO_LOCALHOST 3.94, OUTLOOK_3416 1.74,
>         RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 0.50, RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100 1.50,
>         RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100 1.50, RAZOR2_CHECK 0.50,
>         RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 1.96, RCVD_IN_CBLABUSE 0.25, 
> RCVD_IN_PBL 0.91,
>         RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 0.88, RCVD_IN_XBL 3.03, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10,
>         URIBL_AB_SURBL 1.86, URIBL_BLACK 3.00, URIBL_JP_SURBL 1.50,
>         URIBL_OB_SURBL 1.50, URIBL_SBL 1.50, URIBL_SC_SURBL 0.47,
>         URIBL_WS_SURBL 1.50)
> HX-x-MailScanner-SpamScore: 46.69
> HX-x-MailScanner-From:
> RP:<spamtrap at localhost>
> .
>
> Analyzing:
> T1185942893 = Wed Aug  1 00:34:53 2007
> Current time: Wed Aug  1 00:44:02 EDT 2007
>
>
> This is pretty typical of the messages hung.  In this case it's 
> waiting to be delivered to a local "spamtrap" mailbox.
>
> Can anyone offer me any ideas to troubleshoot this?  I've not been too 
> successful hunting so far today.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -Corey
>
>

Jules

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