MailScanner process stop doing anything?

[David Lee]

(Top-posting on Julian's t-p'd reply.)

Further, if that is the case (a rogue message in your queue hanging 
MailScanner) then I would suggest that your upgrade be into the current 
beta stream, 4.75.7-1 or higher, which has new general-purpose code to 
handle some of the problems in this area.


On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Julian Field wrote:

> I published that version around the start of June 2004.
> That makes your version nearly 5 years old.
> Sorry, but there is no feasible way for me to support a version quite *that* 
> old.
>
> Someone else may have a few ideas of things you could look at, but I can't 
> help you, a few bugs have been ironed out since then :-)
>
> It sounds as if you have a rogue message in your queue that is hanging up 
> MailScanner. More than that, I can't guess.
>
> Sorry.
>
> Jules.
>
> On 3/20/09 6:34 PM, Dodson, Ron wrote:
>> 
>> Running MailScanner 4.31.6 on Solaris 9, Sun v440 with 4 processors. It 
>> seems like the MailScanner process just stop doing anything after a few 
>> minutes. They?re still running, but no messages are moving from in queue to 
>> out.
>> 
>> I?m doing only virus scanning, no spam assassin or anything else. I have a 
>> lyris mailing list server sending large blasts of mail to my MailScanner 
>> server, in addition to it handling normal incoming and outgoing mail. It?s 
>> configured not to scan anything coming from the Lyris server. Running 10 
>> children, mailscanner work directory on tmpfs.
>> 
>> At the moment I have over 60,000 messages in the in queue, I?ve been 
>> manually re-starting mailscanner every 10 minutes or so. Whenever I 
>> restart, it does 3 or 4 batches and then seems to stop doing anything 
>> again. Meanwhile the in queue grows ever larger.
>> 
>> Ron Dodson
>> 
>> Sr. Network Engineer
>> 
>> Lockheed Martin
>> 
>> Business Process Services
>> 
>> 301-519-6502
>> 
>> ron.dodson at lmco.com
>> 
>
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