Warning: skipping message as it has been attempted too many times

Mark Meelhuysen mark at meelhuysen.com
Tue Jul 26 19:04:42 UTC 2016


Hello all,

All of a sudden mailflow stopt functioning. It stopped at 23.50 last night.There were about 200 messages waiting in the HOLD directory.
Last week ik updated my Centos 6 installation with the latest security updates.
What have i tried already:

* Stopped MS services and removed the Processing.db : Did not solve the problem.
* Stopped MS services and removed the Processing.db, and moved all the queued files from /var/spool/postfix/hold to a temp dir : Did not solve the problem. Queue is growing again.

Below a piece of the maillog:

Jul 26 19:49:19 ms MailScanner[16941]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.84.6 starting...
Jul 26 19:49:19 ms MailScanner[16941]: Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
Jul 26 19:49:19 ms MailScanner[16941]: Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
Jul 26 19:49:19 ms MailScanner[16941]: Read 1769 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
Jul 26 19:49:19 ms MailScanner[16941]: Read 5890 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
Jul 26 19:49:19 ms MailScanner[16941]: Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
Jul 26 19:49:19 ms MailScanner[16941]: Started SQL Logging child
Jul 26 19:49:20 ms MailScanner[16941]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
Jul 26 19:49:20 ms MailScanner[16941]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
Jul 26 19:49:20 ms MailScanner[16941]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
Jul 26 19:49:22 ms MailScanner[16941]: Connected to Processing Attempts Database
Jul 26 19:49:22 ms MailScanner[16941]: Found 4 messages in the Processing Attempts Database
Jul 26 19:49:22 ms MailScanner[16941]: Using locktype = flock
Jul 26 19:49:22 ms MailScanner[16941]: Warning: skipping message C5FF622B8B0.A9BFD as it has been attempted too many times
Jul 26 19:49:22 ms MailScanner[16941]: Quarantined message C5FF622B8B0.A9BFD as it caused MailScanner to crash several times
Jul 26 19:49:22 ms MailScanner[16941]: Saved entire message to /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20160726/C5FF622B8B0.A9BFD
Jul 26 19:49:22 ms MailScanner[16941]: writing to /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20160726/C5FF622B8B0.A9BFD/message: No such file or directory

The system is running perfectly fine since november 2014. Can onyone tell me what i should try next?

Thank you in advance,

Mark



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