filter stops

[jason lingnau]

On Oct 9, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Richard Frovarp wrote:

> 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.

No second sendmail, If I manually stop MS all mail stops being  
delivered ( and there is plenty in all ques if sendmail were still  
active.
However  you are correct , when Im alerted that the filter is off (no  
SA/MS signing) Mail does continue to flow.

I hate running in debug mode for something like this as it wont  
happen for 2  days....Ill try my hand at sending debug to a file and  
scouring though it at the next breaking point.
Thank you!
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