Antwort: Re: Mailscanner does not scan mails

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 15:15:26 IST 2010 

At the time, I was either on the train or at home sampling a nice pinotage...:-)

it sounds a bit like when there is some non-queue file in the hold
directory... Check that whith ls -ltr and your favorite pager... MS
will always hit the same in a case like that.

Cheers

On 08/10/2010, Alex Broens <ms-list at alexb.ch> wrote:
> shot in the dark...
>
> if you feel MS is always trying to access the same msg, raise the time
> between scans
>
> if not, I'm stumped..
>
> Where's Glen Steen when we need him?
>
>
>
> On 2010-10-08 15:24, LGi at b-w-computer.de wrote:
>> fixed that, but no change of behavior
>>
>>
>> Lars
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info schrieb am 08.10.2010 15:04:46:
>>
>>> Von: Alex Broens <ms-list at alexb.ch>
>>> An: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>> Datum: 08.10.2010 15:09
>>> Betreff: Re: Mailscanner does not scan mails
>>> Gesendet von: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>
>>> At the bottom of your first post:
>>>
>>> ERROR: The "envelope_sender_header" in your spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>>> ERROR: is not correct, it should match X-VOSSCHEMIE-MailScanner-From
>>>
>>> - you've configured MS clamavmodule (not recommended) but it seems you
>>> also have clamd (recommended)
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2010-10-08 14:44, LGi at b-w-computer.de wrote:
>>>> yes, i think permissions are OK
>>>>
>>>> fw-1 opt # ls -ls /var/spool/postfix/
>>>> total 20
>>>>  0 drwx------  2 postfix root        6 Oct  8 14:40 active
>>>>  0 drwx------  2 postfix root        6 Oct  8 13:41 bounce
>>>>  0 drwx------  2 postfix root        6 Apr  5  2006 corrupt
>>>>  0 drwx------ 18 postfix root      134 Apr 26  2006 defer
>>>>  0 drwx------ 18 postfix root      134 Apr 26  2006 deferred
>>>>  0 drwx------  2 postfix root       45 Oct  1 08:27 flush
>>>> 12 drwx------  2 postfix root     8192 Oct  8 14:42 hold
>>>>  0 drwx------  2 postfix root       61 Oct  8 14:42 incoming
>>>>  0 drwx-wx---  2 postfix postdrop   25 Oct  8 14:07 maildrop
>>>>  4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root     4096 Sep  1  2008 pid
>>>>  4 drwx------  2 postfix root     4096 Oct  7 20:05 private
>>>>  0 drwx--x---  2 postfix postdrop   68 Oct  7 20:05 public
>>>>  0 drwx------  2 postfix root        6 Apr  5  2006 saved
>>>>  0 drwx------  2 postfix root       44 Oct  8 13:32 trace
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> fw-1 opt # ls -la /var/spool/MailScanner/
>>>> total 8
>>>> drwxr-xr-x  6 postfix postfix   69 Mar  5  2009 .
>>>> drwxr-xr-x  9 root    root      98 Mar  5  2009 ..
>>>> drwxr-xr-x  2 postfix postfix    6 May 11  2006 bayes
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 46 postfix postfix 4096 Oct  8 14:22 incoming
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 34 postfix postfix 4096 Oct  8 05:23 quarantine
>>>> drwx------  2 postfix postfix   58 Apr  7  2006 spamassassin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Fragen? Kommen Sie jederzeit gerne auf uns zu!
>>>>
>>>> Herzliche Grüße aus Hamburg
>>>> b&w computer
>>>>
>>>> Lars Gierling
>>>> b&w computer
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Von:    Alex Broens <ms-list at alexb.ch>
>>>> An:     MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>> Datum:  08.10.2010 14:37
>>>> Betreff:        Re: Mailscanner does not scan mails
>>>> Gesendet von:   mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> did you check permsisions as per docs?
>>>> MailScanner setup may reset them after running
>>>>
>>>> h2h
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> On 2010-10-08 14:24, LGi at b-w-computer.de wrote:
>>>>> I just ugraded to MailScanner-4.81.4-1
>>>>>
>>>>> All seems fine, but it's just not scanning messages.
>>>>> The debug output says:
>>>>>
>>>>>         14:10:29 Building a message batch to scan...
>>>>>
>>>>> but nothing happens
>>>>>
>>>>> ps ax shows:
>>>>>
>>>>>         29532 pts/3    S+     0:38 MailScanner: waiting for messages
>>>>>
>>>>> The Incoming Queue Dir is configured correctly:
>>>>>
>>>>> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold
>>>>>
>>>>> When I start the job with strace the Mailscanner processs seem to
>> look
>>>>> into the queue directory every 6 seconds:
>>>>>
>>>>> [pid 29692] chdir("/var/spool/postfix/hold") = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] open(".",
>>>> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000)
>>>>> = 9
>>>>> [pid 29692] getdents64(9, /* 120 entries */, 32768) = 3824
>>>>> [pid 29692] getdents64(9, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] close(9)                    = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] umask(0177)                 = 077
>>>>> [pid 29692] umask(077)                  = 0177
>>>>> [pid 29692] time(NULL)                  = 1286540143
>>>>> [pid 29692] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] nanosleep({6, 0}, {6, 0})   = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] time(NULL)                  = 1286540149
>>>>> [pid 29692] chdir("/var/spool/postfix/hold") = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] open(".",
>>>> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000)
>>>>> = 9
>>>>> [pid 29692] getdents64(9, /* 120 entries */, 32768) = 3824
>>>>> [pid 29692] getdents64(9, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] close(9)                    = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] umask(0177)                 = 077
>>>>> [pid 29692] umask(077)                  = 0177
>>>>> [pid 29692] time(NULL)                  = 1286540149
>>>>> [pid 29692] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
>>>>> [pid 29692] nanosleep({6, 0},
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There are several new messages in the directory
>> /var/spool/postfix/hold
>>>>> but MailScanner does not pick them.
>>>>>
>>>>> any idea how to get this to work?
>>>>> Previus Version MailScanner-4.52.2 is working fine.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> best regards
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Lars Gierling
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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