help - big queue slow load

Tue Jul 28 12:42:43 IST 2009

root at filtro6:~# MailScanner -lint output
Trying to setlogsock(unix)
Read 817 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
Read 5141 hostnames from the phishing blacklist
Config: calling custom init function SQLBlacklist
Starting up SQL Blacklist
Read 0 blacklist entries
Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
Started SQL Logging child
Config: calling custom init function SQLWhitelist
Starting up SQL Whitelist
Read 2 whitelist entries
Checking version numbers...
Version installed (4.73.4) does not match version stated in
MailScanner.conf file (4.68.8), you may want to run upgrade_MailScanner_conf
to ensure your MailScanner.conf file contains all the latest settings.

ERROR: The "envelope_sender_header" in your spam.assassin.prefs.conf
ERROR: is not correct, it should match X-COLT-ENGINE-MailScanner-From

MailScanner setting GID to  (33)
MailScanner setting UID to  (109)

Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
SpamAssassin temporary working directory is
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Spam
SpamAssassin temp dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp
Using SpamAssassin results cache
Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
SpamAssassin reported no errors.
Using locktype = posix
MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = clamav"
Found these virus scanners installed: clamd
===========================================================================
Filename Checks: Windows/DOS Executable (1 eicar.com)
Other Checks: Found 1 problems
Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/30510/./1.message: Eicar-Test-Signature
FOUND

/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/30510/./1/eicar.com: Eicar-Test-Signature
FOUND

Virus Scanning: ClamAV found 2 infections
Infected message 1 came from 10.1.1.1
Infected message 1.message came from
Virus Scanning: Found 2 viruses
===========================================================================
Virus Scanner test reports:
ClamAV said "eicar.com contains Eicar-Test-Signature"

If any of your virus scanners (clamd)
are not listed there, you should check that they are installed correctly
and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its virus.scanners.conf.
Config: calling custom end function SQLBlacklist
Closing down by-domain spam blacklist
Config: calling custom end function MailWatchLogging
Config: calling custom end function SQLWhitelist
Closing down by-domain spam whitelist
root at filtro6:~#

2009/7/28 shprahi shprahi <shprahi at gmail.com>

> What is MailScanner version and MailScanner --lint output also spamassassin
> --lint output
>
> Just see is there any errors on the output
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Marco mangione <marco.mangione at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> this is the detail of bayes table
>>
>> | bayes_seen        | BASE TABLE |   406301568 | MyISAM |
>> | bayes_token       | BASE TABLE |  1028785670 | MyISAM |
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/7/28 Marco mangione <marco.mangione at gmail.com>
>>
>> seems there are some hang when mailscanner connect to SA db .. that is
>>> bigger than 2GB.... what can i do in this case ?
>>>
>>> 2009/7/28 MailScanner <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>>
>>>> If the mail is only being processed very slowly, then unless you have
>>>> the parallelism set too *high* (Max Children should be 5 to start with) then
>>>> there must be some good reason why it is taking a long time. Set "Log Speed
>>>> = yes" in MailScanner.conf and restart MailScanner. Then look at your logs
>>>> and work out what is taking all the time?
>>>>
>>>> When you ran with "--debug --sa-debug", were there any long pauses in
>>>> the output? There shouldn't be, once it has started doing the spam scanning.
>>>>
>>>> Also, you can try switching off the spam scanning altogether, just to
>>>> double check that is where the problem lies and not in your virus scanning.
>>>> What is "Virus Scanners =" set to in MailScanner.conf?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:48:42 +0200, Marco mangione <
>>>> marco.mangione at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> DNS are ok. resolution are quick.
>>>> can i try to increase parallels postfix or mailscanner process ?
>>>> server have much cpu and ram unused...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/7/27 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>>>
>>>>> Most likely DNS lookups. Check your DNS is working properly and you can
>>>>> reach all the blacklists you use very quickly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Start by doing a "MailScanner --debug --sa-debug" and watch for any
>>>>> long pauses.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 27/07/2009 11:29, Marco mangione wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i have a big queue: 3800mails and very slow load: 0.20 seems postfix
>>>>>> and mailscanner dont want use server resource to speed up ... any idea?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> marco
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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