Random CLAMAV error killing MailScanner

[Jerry Benton]

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Sep 22, 2015, at 6:47 AM, Anthony Cartmell <lists at fonant.com> wrote:
> 
> Last night I noticed exactly 50 messages failing to be processed. Oddly
> six of these were duplicate copies of a message sent to me that were
> processed and delivered without trouble. It was only one of the three
> recipients (a local server mail account) that didn't get the message
> delivered: it would seem that the message itself wasn't the problem.
> 
> The first processing attempt I get this error in the maillog:
> 
> Sep 22 03:51:31 gus MailScanner[13973]: Clamd::ERROR:: UNKNOWN CLAMD
> RETURN ./t8M2nAIC012697.header/Access denied. ERROR ::
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/13973
> 
> but then MailScanner tries five more attempts, and on the repeated
> attempts this error is not repeated. The message is then quarantined.
> 
> Sep 22 03:52:54 gus MailScanner[14389]: Making attempt 2 at processing
> message t8M2nAIC012697
> Sep 22 03:58:30 gus MailScanner[16248]: Making attempt 3 at processing
> message t8M2nAIC012697
> Sep 22 04:03:00 gus MailScanner[18438]: Making attempt 4 at processing
> message t8M2nAIC012697
> Sep 22 04:05:12 gus MailScanner[19789]: Making attempt 5 at processing
> message t8M2nAIC012697
> Sep 22 04:10:50 gus MailScanner[22281]: Making attempt 6 at processing
> message t8M2nAIC012697
> Sep 22 04:10:56 gus MailScanner[22382]: Warning: skipping message
> t8M2nAIC012697 as it has been attempted too many times
> Sep 22 04:10:56 gus MailScanner[22382]: Quarantined message
> t8M2nAIC012697 as it caused MailScanner to crash several times
> Sep 22 04:10:56 gus MailScanner[22382]: Saved entire message to
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20150922/t8M2nAIC012697
> 
> Looks like an odd permission problem, but this is on a server that has
> been running MailScanner happily for years. CentOS 6.7, MailScanner
> 4.84.5, no SELinux.
> 
> Anyone seen this before?
> 
> Anthony
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