MailScanner 4.77.1-2 Child silently dies

[Julian Field]

Please do a MailScanner --debug and tell me what it shows you.

On 11/05/2009 19:20, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> I tried upgrading MailScanner 4.76.24-3 to 4.77.1-2. This resulted in
> the child process silently dying on every message, even simple
> text/plain messages.
>
> The child starts a batch
>
> May 11 09:35:22 sbh16 MailScanner[20257]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 2984 bytes
>
> and the next MailScanner log message is a new child starting
>
> May 11 09:35:24 sbh16 MailScanner[20303]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.77.1 starting...
>
> Eventually, on restart we see for example
>
> May 11 10:07:42 sbh16 MailScanner[21289]: Making attempt 6 at
> processing message 1FFC16900C6.A2B03
>
> and on the next restart
>
> May 11 10:07:49 sbh16 MailScanner[21318]: Warning: skipping message
> 1FFC16900C6.A2B03 as it has been attempted too many times
> May 11 10:07:49 sbh16 MailScanner[21318]: Quarantined message
> 1FFC16900C6.A2B03 as it caused MailScanner to crash several times
> May 11 10:07:49 sbh16 MailScanner[21318]: Saved entire message to
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20090511/1FFC16900C6.A2B03
>
> MTA is Postfix.
>
>    

Jules

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