Counts too high in "Deleted nn messages from processing-database" messages

[Mark Sapiro]

The new processing database feature writes log entries like

Mar  8 04:58:03 sbh16 MailScanner[14914]: Deleted 120 messages from
processing-database

With MS 4.75.5, totalling the numbers from these messages over the
course of a day gave essentially the same total as the numbers from
the messages

Mar  8 07:08:54 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages, 133999 bytes

With 4.75.7, the 'Deleted' total is much greater than the 'New Batch'
total. For example (only one MailScanner child process)

[root at sbh16 ~]# grep -E "New Batch|Deleted" /var/log/maillog
[...]
Mar  8 07:34:01 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 1750 bytes
Mar  8 07:34:03 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 4 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 07:42:46 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 4089 bytes
Mar  8 07:42:53 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 3 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 07:45:11 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 4212 bytes
Mar  8 07:45:16 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 3 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 07:49:46 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 2010 bytes
Mar  8 07:49:48 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 3 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 08:02:48 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 6977 bytes
Mar  8 08:02:50 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 3 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 08:20:51 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 2967 bytes
Mar  8 08:20:55 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 3 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 08:21:37 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 15119 bytes
Mar  8 08:21:41 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 3 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 08:25:53 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 1719 bytes
Mar  8 08:25:55 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 3 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 08:28:07 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 2927 bytes
Mar  8 08:28:14 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 4 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 08:29:26 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 2198 bytes
Mar  8 08:29:31 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 3 messages from
processing-database
Mar  8 08:32:37 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 2818 bytes
Mar  8 08:32:44 sbh16 MailScanner[2336]: Deleted 4 messages from
processing-database
[root at sbh16 ~]#

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