choked hold queue

[Simon Jones]

Hi Glen,

Test gives:

[root at mailgate3 hold]# spamassassin -t -D
[2167] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all
[2167] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG
[2167] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.2.3
[2167] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen.
[2167] dbg: util: running in taint mode? yes
[2167] dbg: util: taint mode: deleting unsafe environment variables,
resetting PATH
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/kerberos/sbin', keeping
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/kerberos/bin', keeping
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/local/sbin', keeping
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/local/bin', keeping
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/sbin', keeping
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/bin', keeping
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/sbin', keeping
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/bin', keeping
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/X11R6/bin', keeping
[2167] dbg: util: PATH included '/root/bin', which doesn't exist,
dropping
[2167] dbg: util: final PATH set to:
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbi
n:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
[2167] dbg: dns: no ipv6
[2167] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes
[2167] dbg: dns: Net::DNS version: 0.61

And sticks there, but this happens on the working machines too so I
figured it wasn't a problem.  Absolutely nothing is being sent off this
box - tail -f /var/log/maillog | grep sent shows NOTHING :(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Glenn Steen
> Sent: 13 September 2007 13:07
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: choked hold queue
> 
> On 13/09/2007, Simon Jones <simon at saq.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem with a mailscanner box at the moment getting choked
> up
> > and stacking mail in the /var/spool/postfix/hold directory.
> >
> > When I check for MailScanner processes all I get is a bunch of
> >
> > postfix  15620  0.4  1.4 38712 29564 ?       S    11:10   0:01
> > MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> > postfix  15660  0.6  1.4 38724 29572 ?       S    11:10   0:01
> > MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> > postfix  15689  0.6  1.4 38740 29580 ?       S    11:10   0:01
> > MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> > postfix  15719  0.6  1.4 39188 29844 ?       S    11:10   0:01
> > MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> >
> > it seems that SpamAssassin is choking up but I can't figure out why.
> I
> > run 3 separate gateway machines with MailScanner logging to a
central
> > mysql db and MailWatch for a front end GUI.
> >
> > I've shut down each gateway in turn and only gateway 3 seems to be
> > having this problem, the other two are fine and processing mail
> normally
> > and a ps aux | grep MailScanner shows some checking with
spamassassin
> > and others doing virus scans etc.
> >
> > I changed spamassassin time out within MailScanner.conf and pretty
> much
> > every message timed out on the spamassassin scan, so it killed the
> > process and sent the message on for delivery - spam or no spam.
> >
> > I've checked spam.assassin.prefs against one I know is working and
> the
> > file is exactly the same, a spamassassin -D -p
> > /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint which didn't report
> any
> > errors, although it did say pyzor and dcc checks were local only but
> I
> > don't think this is an issue as spamassassin would just ignore the
> > checks if they're unavailable right?
> >
> > Dns is resolving fine, no probs at all with that and I can't see
> > anything different to the blacklists to that of the working server
so
> I
> > don't think it's a slow rbl.
> >
> > Anyone know what could be causing spamassassin / mailscanner to
choke
> > like this?  before I stopped the service and moved the queue to a
> > temporary dir there was about 500mb of mail in there - I'll filter
> this
> > back in later but need to get the darn thing running properly first
> :)
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > Simon J
> >
> A "classic" problem is that something has put a non-queuefile file in
> the hold directory... This will make MailScanner choke.
> But what you describe sound a bit different. If you run a message
> through (as the PF user) spamassassin -t -D, where do you see
> "pauses"?
> 
> Cheers
> --
> -- Glenn
> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
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