Mailscaaner not delivering mails just queuing them

[Martin Hepworth]

aha - 512MB ram really isn't going to help at all. I bet the things
swapping like mad- vmstat 3 5 will show high swap rates (ie alot more
than zero).

I normally recommend 1GB per CPU core and 5 children per CPU core as a
starting point for optimisasion.

Drop the number of children down to 1 and the number of messages per
batch (Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan) down to 10 in MailScanner.conf

use sa-compile to help with performance.

Go get more RAM - 2GB shouldn't cost much.

--
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK
2009/6/1 Anshul Chauhan <chauhananshul at gmail.com>
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> [root at antispam ~]# MailScanner --lint
> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
> Read 854 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
> Read 10597 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
> Checking version numbers...
> Version number in MailScanner.conf (4.76.25) is correct.
>
> Your envelope_sender_header in spam.assassin.prefs.conf is correct.
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> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
> Using SpamAssassin results cache
> Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
> Connected to processing-messages database
> Created processing-messages database successfully
> There are 142 messages in the processing-messages database
> Using locktype = posix
> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = clamavmodule"
> Found these virus scanners installed: clamavmodule
> ===========================================================================
> Filename Checks: Windows/DOS Executable (1 eicar.com)
> Other Checks: Found 1 problems
> Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> ClamAVModule::INFECTED:: Eicar-Test-Signature:: ./1/eicar.com
> Virus Scanning: ClamAVModule found 2 infections
> Infected message 1 came from 10.1.1.1
> Virus Scanning: Found 2 viruses
> ===========================================================================
>
> If any of your virus scanners (clamavmodule)
> are not listed there, you should check that they are installed correctly
> and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its virus.scanners.conf.
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> [root at antispam MailScanner]# MailScanner -v
> Running on
> Linux antispam.xyz.com 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 18:49:47 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> This is CentOS release 5.2 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.76.25
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.16    Archive::Zip
> 0.23    bignum
> 1.04    Carp
> 1.41    Compress::Zlib
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 2.121_08        Data::Dumper
> 2.27    Date::Parse
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.74    File::Basename
> 2.09    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.08    File::Path
> 0.20    File::Temp
> 0.90    Filesys::Df
> 1.35    HTML::Entities
> 3.56    HTML::Parser
> 2.37    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.23    IO
> 1.14    IO::File
> 1.13    IO::Pipe
> 2.04    Mail::Header
> 1.89    Math::BigInt
> 0.22    Math::BigRat
> 3.07    MIME::Base64
> 5.427   MIME::Decoder
> 5.427   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.427   MIME::Head
> 5.427   MIME::Parser
> 3.07    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.427   MIME::Tools
> 0.13    Net::CIDR
> 1.25    Net::IP
> 0.16    OLE::Storage_Lite
> 1.04    Pod::Escapes
> 3.05    Pod::Simple
> 1.09    POSIX
> 1.19    Scalar::Util
> 1.78    Socket
> 2.16    Storable
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.27    Sys::Syslog
> 1.26    Test::Pod
> 0.86    Test::Simple
> 1.9707  Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.30    Archive::Tar
> 0.23    bignum
> 1.82    Business::ISBN
> 1.10    Business::ISBN::Data
> 1.08    Data::Dump
> 1.814   DB_File
> 1.21    DBD::SQLite
> 1.607   DBI
> 1.15    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.36    Digest::MD5
> 2.11    Digest::SHA1
> 1.00    Encode::Detect
> 0.17008 Error
> 0.18    ExtUtils::CBuilder
> 2.18    ExtUtils::ParseXS
> 2.38    Getopt::Long
> 0.44    Inline
> 1.08    IO::String
> 1.04    IO::Zlib
> 2.21    IP::Country
> 0.29    Mail::ClamAV
> 3.002005        Mail::SpamAssassin
> v2.004  Mail::SPF
> 1.999001        Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.2808  Module::Build
> 0.20    Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.65    Net::DNS
> 0.002.2 Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
> missing Net::LDAP
>  4.004  NetAddr::IP
> 1.94    Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 2.64    Test::Harness
> 0.95    Test::Manifest
> 1.98    Text::Balanced
> 1.35    URI
> 0.7203  version
> 0.62    YAML
> [root at antispam MailScanner]#
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> When i do MailScanner --lint it takes arund 5-10 min to gve the complete output.
> My Machine configuration are
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
> 512 MB RAM
> but still it takes so long to just chk the config can u plz tell me how to boost up its performance also aur its normal.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Anshul Chauhan
> "Dream is not what you see while sleep, it's the thing that does not let you sleep."
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