Mailscaaner not delivering mails just queuing them

Joey Casas Joey.Casas at nexusmgmt.com
Mon Jun 1 14:20:56 IST 2009


Maybe Sendmail isn't delivering from the scanned directory.

Joey Casas
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-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Anshul Chauhan
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 9:01 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Mailscaaner not delivering mails just queuing them

Is  MailScanner --lint  & MailScanner -v results fine?
if yes thn why mails r not being delivered they r just queued

Plz help


Warm Regards,
Anshul Chauhan
"Dream is not what you see while sleep, it's the thing that does not let you sleep."




On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:


	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>
	
	>
	> [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.
	>
	> 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.
	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
	> [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]#
	>
	>
	> 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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