MailScanner failing to deliver

[Jim Coates]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Hugo van der Kooij
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 3:05 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: MailScanner failing to deliver
> 
> 
> On Sat, 5 May 2007, Jim Coates wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> I suggest you check this out and fix what is required to be fixed.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> If MailWatch is not working there is nothing to be lost from 
> removing the 
> MailWatch line(s) from your config now. See if it is degrading your 
> MailScanner  functionality.
> 
> Did you go over the changelog to see if things changed from your old 
> version to your current one?
> 
> Hugo.

Turns out it was MailWatch that was hanging up MailScanner.  Haven't figured
out why, but removing the MailWatchLogging line fixed it for now.

Jim