Mailscaaner not delivering mails just queuing them
Martin Hepworth
maxsec at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 15:20:40 IST 2009
So what installation instructions did you follow??
2009/6/1 Anshul Chauhan <chauhananshul at gmail.com>:
> 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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