Duplicated messages

Mark Adams mark at workshopit.co.uk
Tue Jul 28 15:34:15 UTC 2015


How do I try send them through again? At the moment they are just "message"
in the quarantine, and if I try open them through the web interface it
times out, I guess because its trying to open each one of the dupes?

"Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
/var/www/html/mailscanner/functions.php on line 1022"

On 28 July 2015 at 16:31, Jeremy McSpadden <jeremy at fluxlabs.net> wrote:

>  Yup. Turn on debug and watch it pass through. Last time I saw these it
> was a taint issue .. Which I am assuming has been fixed by now.
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> On Jul 28, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Mark Adams <mark at workshopit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   Hi Jeremy,
>
>  Are you saying that something in these messages is crashing Mailscanner?
> Everything seems to be OK right now, but all 70 of the emails (all
> different types and from different servers) are now in the quarantine
> because of "Other Bad Content Detected" with the report "MailScanner:
> Message attempted to kill MailScanner". It seems it succeeded...
>
> On 28 July 2015 at 15:59, Jeremy McSpadden <jeremy at fluxlabs.net> wrote:
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>>  It's probably looping/crashing mailscanner. Drop MS into debug mode and
>> watch logs.
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>> On Jul 28, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Mark Adams <mark at workshopit.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>   An update to this, the "2 or 4" duplicates showing in the exim log
>> look like they are actually just separate deliveries to other addresses, so
>> not duplicates. In 1 example there is a single email with 2 recipients (2
>> entries in exim log) that has over 1500+ entries in the mailcleaner DB. It
>> looks like this email hasn't been delivered to the recipient at all either.
>>
>> On 28 July 2015 at 15:14, Mark Adams <mark at workshopit.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>  If anyone could provide advice that would be great. Running Debian
>>> Wheezy Mailscanner 4.79.11-2.2
>>>
>>>  Our incoming dir filled up just before the weekend so we didn't see
>>> the issue for a couple of days. Normally we would just shut down
>>> mailcleaner and delete the dir then start it up again and all would be ok.
>>> However on this occasion, the root partition also become full because of
>>> the mysql DB (it got to 14G in 2 days..).
>>>
>>>  For some reason everything started duplicating. I can see lots of
>>> incoming messages in the exim logs with duplication (2 or 4 of what looks
>>> like the same email) but in the mailscanner database there is hundreds of
>>> each email listed (apparently there was over 9 million messages delivered
>>> on 1 day compared with the server average of about 1500!)
>>>
>>>  It seems like some sort of loop, but afaik nothing specific was
>>> changed in the config apart from the fact incoming became full. Space has
>>> been cleared on the root partition and incoming, and everything appears to
>>> be running as normal right now.
>>>
>>>  Any advice on debugging this would be much appreciated, also, how best
>>> should I clear out the DB of all the dupes?
>>>
>>>  Thanks!
>>>
>>
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