Messages in loop

Jules Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Nov 28 13:58:30 GMT 2009



On 27/11/2009 22:52, Edward Dekkers wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've notice that I have some messages stuck in Mailscanner queue. They
>> are in
>> loop and doesn't go out from Mailscanner. Anyway, it "works" good with
>> new
>> mails but doesn't finish to process the old others (There are mails
>> from 2-3
>> days ago). Maybe the proble is with clamav ?
>> Nov 26 15:37:44 mail MailScanner[12628]: Commercial scanner
>> clamavmodule timed
>> out!
>> Thanks for help.
>>
>> Some logs:
>>
>> Nov 26 15:35:17 mail MailScanner[13159]: New Batch: Found 4 messages
>> waiting
>> Nov 26 15:35:17 mail MailScanner[13159]: New Batch: Scanning 1
>> messages, 8401
>> bytes
>> Nov 26 15:35:17 mail MailScanner[13159]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>> Starting
>> Nov 26 15:35:18 mail MailScanner[13159]: Requeue: E98721C51F7.3F64F to
>> C10C21C778A
>> Nov 26 15:35:18 mail MailScanner[13159]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>> messages
>> Nov 26 15:36:06 mail MailScanner[13159]: New Batch: Found 4 messages
>> waiting
>> Nov 26 15:36:06 mail MailScanner[13159]: New Batch: Scanning 1
>> messages, 3080
>> bytes
>> Nov 26 15:36:07 mail MailScanner[13159]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>> Starting
>> Nov 26 15:36:07 mail MailScanner[13159]: Requeue: 2E4FB1C51F7.76BB2 to
>> AED6E1C778A
>> Nov 26 15:36:07 mail MailScanner[13159]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>> messages
>> Nov 26 15:37:44 mail MailScanner[12628]: Commercial scanner
>> clamavmodule timed
>> out!
>> Nov 26 15:37:44 mail MailScanner[12628]: Virus Scanning: Denial Of
>> Service
>> attack detected!
>>      
> I'm seeing similar issues still, and I sent a detailed debug yesterday to
> the list, with attached offending messages (slightly different symptoms),
> but it got delayed till the moderator of the list lets it through, because
> apparently it's too big. Fair enough - one attached message is 126KB, the
> other 698.
>
> I'm not sure whether it will ever actually get to the list.
>
> Is there any where I can upload to attachments instead and just send the
> body of the e-mail with links?
>    
Put large files in one of the pastebins on the net, then just send a 
link to it in your submission to the mailing list. pastebin.com works 
perfectly well.

Jules

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