Incoming mail stuck in Hold directory

Budi F bfebrian at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 12:51:00 UTC 2020


I found this in maillog,

is this normal rebuild is due, Found 0 messages, and mailscanner child
dying after bayes rebuild?

=====start
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: MailScanner Email Processor
version 5.3.3 starting...
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: Reading configuration file
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: Reading configuration file
/etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: Read 1500 hostnames from the
phishing whitelist
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: Read 8480 hostnames from the
phishing blacklists
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: Config: calling custom init
function MailWatchLogging
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: MailWatch: Started MailWatch SQL
Logging child
**Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: Bayes database rebuild is due*
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache
database
Aug  1 19:44:58 border MailScanner[3910]: SpamAssassin Bayes database
rebuild starting
Aug  1 19:44:59 border MailScanner[3910]: SpamAssassin Bayes database
rebuild completed
Aug  1 19:44:59 border MailScanner[3910]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...
Aug  1 19:45:00 border MailScanner[3910]: Connected to Processing Attempts
Database
**Aug  1 19:45:00 border MailScanner[3910]: Found 0 messages in the
Processing Attempts Database*
Aug  1 19:45:00 border MailScanner[3910]: Using locktype = flock
Aug  1 19:45:00 border MailScanner[3910]: Config: calling custom end
function MailWatchLogging
**Aug  1 19:45:00 border MailScanner[3910]: MailScanner child dying after
Bayes rebuild*
Aug  1 19:45:00 border MailScanner[3918]: MailScanner Email Processor
version 5.3.3 starting...
=====end

Regards

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 7:12 PM Shawn Iverson via MailScanner <
mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info> wrote:

> Any clues in /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages in regard to the
> MailScanner daemon?
> On 8/1/20 12:18 AM, Budi F wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install mailscanner in centos 7 with postfix
>
> It's working fine, but at least in every 3,4 hours all the email stuck in
> incoming directory,
> /var/spool/postfix/hold
>
> Restarting the mailscanner will solved the problem, all emails in hold
> directory fill be delivered, but then this will happen again
>
> Temporary, with cron, I restart the mailscanner service in every 2 hours
>
> My configuration:
> Centos 7
> postfix-2.10.1-9.el7.x86_64
> MailWatch Version: 1.2.15
> spamassassin-3.4.0-5.el7_7.x86_64
> clamd-0.102.3-1.el7.x86_64
>
> drwxrwx---. 2 postfix mtagroup    6 Aug  1 11:02 hold
>
> And the files under hold directory are own by postfix.postfix
>
> Member of mtagroup
> postfix mail clamscan apache
>
> Why is sometime the emails stuck in the hold directory, and what are the
> solutions?
>
> Regards
>
> --
>
> Shawn Iverson
> shawniverson at summitgrid.com
>
>
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