"Problem Messages"

[Mark Sapiro]

On 11:59 AM, Johnny Stork wrote:
> Ever since one of the last upgrades, I have been getting these "Problem
> Messages" emails.
> 
> Are these messages that I should/could delete somewhere? Or how can I
> find out exactly what the "problem"
>  is with these?
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> 
> Archive:
> 
> Number of messages: 9
> Tries    Message    Last Tried
> =====    =======    ==========
> 6    n96BpwUm020190    Tue Oct  6 05:15:04 2009
> 6    n8MF8URm009682    Tue Sep 22 08:32:58 2009
> 6    n8MF0cF5009244    Tue Sep 22 08:24:39 2009
> 6    n8MEpc2L008762    Tue Sep 22 08:16:02 2009
> 6    n8LCan8m013668    Mon Sep 21 05:56:59 2009
> 6    n81F8Vnb032496    Tue Sep  1 08:30:34 2009
> 6    n7VEF6dJ016460    Mon Aug 31 07:40:17 2009
> 6    n7NLWIis032081    Sun Aug 23 14:55:14 2009
> 6    n7NHVwFX022003    Sun Aug 23 10:56:27 2009


The above are entries in MailScanner's Processing.db. They represent
messages that encountered some fatal exception during processing. They
were retried 6 times and then the message was quarantined and the
Processing.db entry moved from the processing table to the archive
table. There was log information (probably MailScanner entries in
/var/log/maillog) at the time that would indicate what the error was.
You will see these if you still have logs back to October. You can also
find the quarantined messages if your quarantine goes back that far.

You can just remove /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db and
MailScanner will recreate it. See
<http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-June/091967.html>
and other messages in that thread.

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