mailscanner batch problems

[Julian Field]

On 21/01/2010 11:39, Miguel Angel Nieto wrote:
> Hi Jules,
>
> This is the debug output:
>
> MailScanner --debug /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> In Debugging mode, not forking...
>
> Ignore errors about failing to find EOCD signature
> format error: can't find EOCD signature
>   at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 820
> format error: can't find EOCD signature
>   at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 820
> WARNING: Ignoring unsupported option --tempdir
> WARNING: Ignoring unsupported option --recursive (-r)
> WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option --disable-summary
> WARNING: Ignoring unsupported option --unrar
>    
What virus scanner are you using, and what version?
What version of MailScanner are you using?

All of those error messages should be harmless, it's not crashing or 
anything.
Does your /var/log/maillog indicate MailScanner continually restarting 
itself?
> Stopping now as you are debugging me.
>
> Thanks
>
> 2010/1/20 Julian Field<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
>    
>> Do a "MailScanner --debug" and see if it shows any problems.
>> It should pick up 1 batch, process it and then quit. If it produces any
>> error messages, let me know the *full* text of the exact error message.
>>
>> Jules.
>>
>> On 20/01/2010 10:07, Miguel Angel Nieto wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Im using postfix.
>>>
>>> I have this option, with 10 children.
>>>
>>> Queue Scan Interval = 5
>>>
>>> This is a normal behavior:
>>>
>>> Jan 19 13:06:06 xxx MailScanner[32244]: New Batch: Found 3 messages
>>> waiting
>>> Jan 19 13:06:07 xxx MailScanner[32457]: New Batch: Found 4 messages
>>> waiting
>>> Jan 19 13:06:08 xxx MailScanner[32001]: New Batch: Found 4 messages
>>> waiting
>>> Jan 19 13:06:09 xxx MailScanner[31253]: New Batch: Found 4 messages
>>> waiting
>>> Jan 19 13:06:10 xxx MailScanner[32457]: New Batch: Found 6 messages
>>> waiting
>>> Jan 19 13:06:12 xxx MailScanner[31253]: New Batch: Found 7 messages
>>> waiting
>>>
>>> But yerterday I have this problem (with 800+ mails in hold queue)
>>>
>>> Jan 19 12:49:08 xxx MailScanner[5079]: New Batch: Found 368 messages
>>> waiting
>>> Jan 19 12:50:39 xxx MailScanner[1920]: New Batch: Found 412 messages
>>> waiting
>>> Jan 19 12:51:22 xxx MailScanner[2377]: New Batch: Found 431 messages
>>> waiting
>>> Jan 19 12:52:03 xxx MailScanner[7883]: New Batch: Found 450 messages
>>> waiting
>>> Jan 19 12:57:07 xxx MailScanner[2377]: New Batch: Found 752 messages
>>> waiting
>>>
>>> Five minutes from one batch to another one!
>>>
>>> To solve the problem I had to restart MailScanner.
>>>
>>> Can you help me? :)
>>>
>>> P.D.
>>>
>>> My first problem with Mailscanner in... "11:04:13 up 154 days" :)
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Jules
>>
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Jules

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