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

[Ugo Bellavance]

Peter Farrow wrote:
> 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

Was TNEF updated recently on your system?

What do you have for

TNEF Expander =

?

Have you tried the internal one?

If you don't want to create too much delays, you could use "Expand TNEF 
= no" until a real solution come in.

Ugo