Problem with mailscanner

[Drew Marshall]

On 24 Nov 2007, at 06:53, Rupen Momaya wrote:

> Hi,
> I am running mailscanner + postfix with below versions on CentOS 4.5
> box. Suddenly we started getting below error messages and mails were
> queing up. I re-isntalled Mail::ClamAV module, upgraded Clam version
> to 0.91.2, disabled clam from Mailscanner but nogo...When i disable
> Mailscanner completely & run only postfix it works fine & mails start
> gettign delivered....
> I have googled but didnt find this error anywhere..Can someone help  
> here?
>
> ----------------------------------
> Nov 23 02:04:04 netbox MailScanner[4594]: Virus and Content  
> Scanning: Starting
> Nov 23 02:04:05 netbox MailScanner[4595]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 722 bytes
> Nov 23 02:04:05 netbox MailScanner[4595]: Failed to create message
> structures for 80FBF424001.9CE89, dropping it from the bat
> ch
> Nov 23 02:04:05 netbox MailScanner[4595]: Virus and Content  
> Scanning: Starting
> Nov 23 02:04:06 netbox MailScanner[4597]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 722 bytes
> Nov 23 02:04:06 netbox MailScanner[4597]: Failed to create message
> structures for 80FBF424001.6697B, dropping it from the bat
> ch
> Nov 23 02:04:06 netbox MailScanner[4597]: Virus and Content  
> Scanning: Starting
> Nov 23 02:04:07 netbox MailScanner[4598]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 722 bytes
> Nov 23 02:04:07 netbox MailScanner[4598]: Failed to create message
> structures for 80FBF424001.5B9BC, dropping it from the bat
> ch
> Nov 23 02:04:07 netbox MailScanner[4598]: Virus and Content  
> Scanning: Starting
> Nov 23 02:04:11 netbox MailScanner[4578]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 722 bytes
> Nov 23 02:04:11 netbox MailScanner[4578]: Failed to create message
> structures for 80FBF424001.7EAC6, dropping it from the bat
> ch
> Nov 23 02:04:11 netbox MailScanner[4578]: Virus and Content  
> Scanning: Starting
> Nov 23 02:04:14 netbox MailScanner[4594]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 722 bytes
> Nov 23 02:04:14 netbox MailScanner[4594]: Failed to create message
> structures for 80FBF424001.DD424, dropping it from the bat
> ch
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Versions :
> MailScanner-perl-MIME-Base64-3.05-5
> mailscanner-4.45.4-1
> postfix-2.2.10-1.1.el4

Your MailScanner version is pretty old. There was a great deal of  
work done on Postfix message structures between your version and the  
latest (4.65.3). I would suggest you upgrade (It's normally really  
quick and easy) to pick up the latest code.

Drew

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