Incoming mail stuck in Hold directory

[Shawn Iverson]

Try setting this temporarily and see what happens:

Rebuild Bayes Every = 0

Wait During Bayes Rebuild = no

I'm wondering if your child is hung waiting on a bayes rebuild that 
never completes.

On 8/1/20 9:01 AM, Shawn Iverson via MailScanner wrote:
>
> The child dying is normal. What is not normal is the end of your log.
>
> You should see the parent spawning a new child, which it does...
>
> Aug  1 19:45:00 border MailScanner[3918]: MailScanner Email Processor 
> version 5.3.3 starting...
>
> but it appears it is stalling because there are no entries that it is 
> reading in your configs.
>
> On 8/1/20 8:51 AM, Budi F wrote:
>> 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 
>> <mailto: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 <mailto:shawniverson at summitgrid.com>
>>
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>
> Shawn Iverson
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>
>
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