Corrupted messages Postfix

[David Valin Alonso]

Hi Glenn,

i think i am using fifo lock if you mean the qmgr line:
qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr

So the correct lock type in mailscanner.conf for postfix 2.10 should be
flock or posix??

Thanks for your reply.

Regards,

David


2013/6/7 Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com>

> Hello David,
>
> This problem you have may be stemming from the change of locking
> scheme in Postfix 2.10. It was also a problem (in the past) when we
> did the two-postfix deferred queue thing to implement MailScanner
> (prior to the hold queue thing we usually do now).
> Check wether your postfix is using fifo or unix locks in master.cf,
> and consider going back to fifo in that (with appropriat restart of
> Postfix afterwards, of course)... OR change MailScanner.conf
> accordingly and restart MailScanner (setting is "Lock Type").
>
> I would think it fairly safe&easy to do the PF change.
>
> Cheers
> --
> -- Glenn
>
> On 31 May 2013 09:18, David Valin Alonso <deivishome at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Martin,
> > this is a copy/pste from my mail.log:
> > May 29 11:02:21 server postfix/cleanup[27995]: 19D6CDFD3F:
> > message-id=<201305290411.3.5607.30342.2445274 at cog.lumata.com>
> > May 29 11:02:21 server postfix/smtpd[27991]: disconnect from
> > unknown[213.92.42.10]
> > May 29 11:02:22 server MailScanner[24390]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages,
> > 4532 bytes
> > May 29 11:02:22 server MailScanner[24390]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> > Starting
> > May 29 11:02:36 server MailScanner[24390]: Requeue: 19D6CDFD3F.AEAD7 to
> > C6CEEDFD46
> > May 29 11:02:36 server MailScanner[24390]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
> messages
> > May 29 11:02:36 server postfix/qmgr[3507]: C6CEEDFD46: from=<>,
> size=3885,
> > nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> > May 29 11:02:36 server postfix/qmgr[3507]: warning: C6CEEDFD46: message
> > rejected: missing end record
> > May 29 11:02:36 server postfix/qmgr[3507]: warning: saving corrupt file
> > "C6CEEDFD46" from queue "active" to queue "corrupt"
> > May 29 11:02:36 server MailScanner[24390]: Deleted 1 messages from
> > processing-database
> >
> > Not all mails go to corrupt, for example if a mail comes to 1 person i
> > handles well the first time, the next time it sends to corrupt, i am
> loosing
> > the 60-75% in the corrupt queue, yesterday i had to stop MailScanner and
> > reconfig headers_checks to bypass the problem till i find a solution
> because
> > everything was working great.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
> > 2013/5/30 Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> what do the logs say for the messages in question?
> >> check the postfix logs and the mailscanner logs.
> >> Also try running mailscanner in debug mode (see the wiki)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Martin Hepworth, CISSP
> >> Oxford, UK
> >>
> >>
> >> On 30 May 2013 09:10, David Valin Alonso <deivishome at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>> i got a server runing ubuntu 10.04 lts x64 + postfix 2.10 + cyrus 2.2 +
> >>> Mailscanner 4.84 + Spamassasin and all was working really great til a
> couple
> >>> of days that began to send mails to corrupt folder
> >>> /var/spool/postfix/corrupt. It complains about a missing record and it
> >>> rejects the mail moving from active to corrupt queue.
> >>> I don't know what happend and the configurations of postfix and
> >>> mailscanner didn't change as it was working really great.
> >>>
> >>> What could happened?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>>
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