dying children?

[Steve Freegard]

Jon Dustin wrote:
>>>> On 7/29/2008 at 10:52 AM, in message
>
> Another update: It appears only certain messages cause the children to die, as there are some in the queue that seem to be scanned MANY times:
> 
> Jul 29 10:53:02 mail2 MailScanner[14863]: Content Checks: Detected and have disarmed web bug tags in HTML message in 9DDB8BA3DF.1BC27 from dailydish at yournewsletters.net 
> Jul 29 10:53:49 mail2 MailScanner[15327]: SpamAssassin cache hit for message 9DDB8BA3DF.E8E41
> Jul 29 10:54:33 mail2 MailScanner[15327]: Content Checks: Detected and have disarmed web bug tags in HTML message in 9DDB8BA3DF.E8E41 from dailydish at yournewsletters.net 
> Jul 29 10:54:36 mail2 MailScanner[15600]: SpamAssassin cache hit for message 9DDB8BA3DF.8BF99
> Jul 29 10:55:35 mail2 MailScanner[15600]: Content Checks: Detected and have disarmed web bug tags in HTML message in 9DDB8BA3DF.8BF99 from dailydish at yournewsletters.net 
> Jul 29 10:55:56 mail2 MailScanner[15735]: SpamAssassin cache hit for message 9DDB8BA3DF.F3A78
> 
> (above message arrived at 1020, and is still being processed by various children at 1058)
> 

I suspect MailScanner is dying at during the batch which causes the 
messages to be processed again and again.

Run MailScanner in debug mode 'MailScanner --debug --debug-sa' and see 
what turns up.

Cheers,
Steve.