Problem with MailScanner looping and cliaming spamassassin cache hits on every message

[Peter Farrow]

Hi There,

Out of the blue my MailScanner stopped working, queuing mail on the in 
queue and looping over and over again adding each message to the 
spamassassin cache it would seem.

ps aux | grep MailScanner gives a list of defunct mailscanners that 
constantly changes.

no mail is ever delivered out of the in queue which just grows,

and a check_mailscanner ends with this error:

Can't call method "bodyhandle" on an undefined value at 
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/TNEF.pm line 82.

MailScanner -v gives:

This is CentOS release 4.5 (Final)
This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)

This is MailScanner version 4.54.6


I cannot seem to get around this problem , can't seem to fix it, it just 
appeared last night and the machine quit delivering mail, MailScanner 
loops and the in queue grows.

Any help would be appreciated...

Pete