Many cache hits before message finally delivered

[Mikael Syska]

Hi.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Daniel Davidson <danield at igb.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> I am having an odd problem were simple messages seemingly at random take
> a very long time to deliver.  Most others, deliver right away. A little
> checking reveals that they are getting scanned for viruses multiple
> times.  For example:
>
> [root at mail etc]# grep Nov\ 30 /var/log/maillog|grep 98A1140460 |grep
> SpamAssassin\ cache
> Nov 30 08:55:29 mail MailScanner[27405]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
> message 98A1140460.79963
> Nov 30 08:55:37 mail MailScanner[28156]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
> message 98A1140460.25237
> Nov 30 08:55:43 mail MailScanner[28270]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
> message 98A1140460.A8B9B
> .........
> Nov 30 10:12:11 mail MailScanner[11353]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
> message 98A1140460.37797
> Nov 30 10:12:15 mail MailScanner[11353]: Requeue: 98A1140460.37797 to
> 8D23F4033E
>
> This ran about 500 times before the requeue finally took effect.  Any
> ideas as to what can cause this?  I just updated clamav, but that does
> not seem to help.  Below are the appropriate package versions.  Thanks
> for any help in advance.
>
> mailscanner-4.61.7-2

Just stating the obviously ... you know that version is 3½ years old,
right ? The first thing people will say it to upgrade to latest
stable. Were do you get this package from?

> spamassassin-3.3.1-3.el5.rf

This is also new ...

> clamav-0.96.5-1.el5.rf

This one is new ...

> postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2
> procmail-3.22-17.1
>
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I would upgrade MS ... and then see if this continues. There have been
done alot to catch mails thats crashing MS.

mvh
Mikael Syska