Corrupted messages Postfix

[Glenn Steen]

On 7 June 2013 14:53, David Valin Alonso <deivishome at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
>
> i think i am using fifo lock if you mean the qmgr line:
> qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr
pickup as well...
>
> So the correct lock type in mailscanner.conf for postfix 2.10 should be
> flock or posix??
>
Just leaving it empty *should* be fine.

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-- Glenn

> 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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