dying children?

[Steve Freegard]

Jon Dustin wrote:
>>>> On 7/29/2008 at 11:17 AM, in message <488F3472.1090904 at fsl.com>, Steve Freegard
>> Run MailScanner in debug mode 'MailScanner --debug --debug-sa' and see 
>> what turns up.
>>
> 
> Sure enough, I found a message that was causing the MailScanner children to die. Each of my MailScanner hosts had a copy (guess I'm just lucky) delivered on July 7, and that is exactly when performance began degrading.
> 
> Julian - Would you like a copy of these messages? They look like spam to me, but I am not sure exactly where the problem with MailScanner lies.
> 

What output do you get from --debug?  As it might not be a problem with 
MailScanner but one of the associated utilities.

Cheers,
Steve.