MailScanner failing to deliver

Jim Coates jimc at laridian.com
Sun May 6 05:04:12 IST 2007


I'm reposting this simply because I accidentally tagged it onto another
thread.. sorry:
 
 
Hey all...
 
My host had to upgrade some things on our server and in the process upgraded
MailScanner to the latest available from the ports tree (FreeBSD).  The
version is 4.50.15.
 
Since the upgrade, its been having issues... it seems to receive email (I
can tail the maillog and see stuff coming in), but it only delivers inbound
and outbound for a short period of time. I then have to restart MailScanner,
and it will once again deliver for just a short period of time.
 
When it restarts (and seemingly before it fails too) there are a group of
messages that get processed over and over.
 
Another oddity... when tailing the maillog, I see MailScanner start multiple
times... IE - it puts up the version info and the number of messages in
queue etc... then a few seconds later I see the same thing twice more.
 
Any ideas? I wasn't having these issues at all with the older version of
MailScanner that I was running.
 
NEW INFORMATION: when I do a "mailscanner --lint" it tells me the following:
 
mail2# mailscanner --lint
Read 701 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
Cannot write pid file , No such file or directory at
/usr/local/sbin/mailscanner line 1238
Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
Using SpamAssassin results cache
Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
SpamAssassin reported no errors.
MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = clamav"
Found these virus scanners installed: clamavmodule
mail2#

I also had MailWatch installed, but the host recently upgraded MySQL and it
has not worked since then.  Not sure what the cause is or if its adding to
this trouble.  I do get a considerable amount of :
 
May  5 22:56:57 mail2 MailScanner[98183]: Started SQL Logging child
May  5 22:56:57 mail2 MailScanner[98106]: Started SQL Logging child
May  5 22:56:58 mail2 MailScanner[58029]: Started SQL Logging child
May  5 22:57:00 mail2 MailScanner[96343]: Started SQL Logging child
May  5 22:57:08 mail2 MailScanner[98200]: Started SQL Logging child

Basically I am having to restart it about every 30 minutes right now, so I'd
love any help you can give me.
 
Thank you in advance,
Jim Coates
 
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