Many cache hits before message finally delivered

[Daniel Davidson]

Sounds like I need to schedule a server outage then.  It is odd that
this seems to be a fairly new problem though.

Dan


On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 22:43 +0100, Mikael Syska wrote:
> 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