Problem with mailscanner

[Glenn Steen]

On 24/11/2007, Rupen Momaya <rupen.momaya at gmail.com> 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
>
> [root at linbox postfix]# ls -al /var/spool/MailScanner/
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root    root     4096 Nov 28  2005 .
> drwxr-xr-x   18 root    root     4096 Nov 23 20:40 ..
> drwx------    2 postfix postfix  4096 Nov 24 11:40 incoming
> drwx------  162 postfix nobody  12288 Nov 23 12:29 quarantine
>
>
> Regards,
> Rupen
Is 80FBF424001 really a complete queue file? Can postcat understand
it? With the rather old versions you have ... things _should_ be OK,
but .... I assume you are using the olny really supported method, the
HOLD method, and not the old *deprecated* dual Postfix/defer method...
The supported one has the header_check putting everything in the hold
"queue"... If so, check that there are no strange files in the hold
queue directory ... f there are, move or remove it/them.

Then do as Drew/Hugo says... go do some updating;-).

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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