filter stops

[Richard Frovarp]

jason lingnau wrote:
> Hi all, cheers Jules!
>
> running nuonce BQ machine(s) and this has been the deal with all of them.
> At some point our filters drop.( currenly the case see below)...mail 
> still gets sent as sendmail must not wait forever to hear back from MS.
> My ( newbie ) self thinks spamassassitn in the culprit.
>
> My question- how do I tell where this event is occurring.
>
> CentOS release 4.4
> This is MailScanner version 4.56.8
> SpamAssassin version 3.1.7
> Clamav rev ? ( from clam-sa combo install)
>
> ps aux
> root     11381  0.0  1.7 25040 18092 ?       Ss   Oct07   0:00 
> MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping
> root     11382  0.0  6.5 72556 66732 ?       S    Oct07   0:10 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
> root     11395  0.0  6.3 70384 64564 ?       S    Oct07   0:09 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
> root     11400  0.0  6.3 70860 64664 ?       S    Oct07   0:08 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
> root     11410  0.0  6.3 70540 64864 ?       S    Oct07   0:08 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
> root     11420  0.0  6.1 70808 62116 ?       S    Oct07   0:09 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
>
> jason
> intuitiveisp
Sendmail doesn't wait to hear back from MS. It simply puts it in an 
incoming queue for MS which then will place it in the outgoing queue for 
sendmail to pick back up again. I would guess that you have the default 
sendmail running. MS will start up its own set of sendmail processes 
with the correct settings. If you shutdown MS and sendmail is still 
running and passing messages through, this is your problem.