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<DIV><SPAN class=544243116-19102007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
would say it is seriously in need of a memory upgrade. The minimum recomendation
is 1GB.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Damian
Rivas<BR><B>Sent:</B> 19 October 2007 17:22<BR><B>To:</B>
mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info<BR><B>Subject:</B> Weird Problem with
MailScanner<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>Hi there, I'm
having a really weird problem and as I am a n00b it gets a bit more difficult
to find a solution. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=725004715-19102007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>I'll explain the
details first:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=725004715-19102007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>Since 6 months
ago, I am the System Administrator of a Tourism Agency. We use an E-mail
Scanner in a server with the following characteristics:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=725004715-19102007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>Processor: Pentium
II 233 Mhz.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>RAM: 128
MB</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>OS: Linux
Slackware 9</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>MailScanner
version: 4.55.10</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=725004715-19102007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>This E-mail
Scanner use the MailScanner with Sophos Antivirus and Spam Assasin to filter
spam and scan incoming and outcoming mails for viruses which are then
redirected to an internal MS Exchange Server or to the Internet, respectively
by sendmail.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=725004715-19102007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>One month
ago, the server started behaving erratically. Instead of checking
and sending mails as it normally did, it started queueing mails massively and
therefore accumulating great quantities of them, it got up to 10000 mails
queued up in a single day, therefore, no one recieved a single mail.
After many pointless attempts to repair this problem and seeing that the
Travel Agents were getting a bit mad, I decided to redirect the MX server of
our domains in the DNS to the firewall, so that our E-Mail Scanner server
didn't recieve more mail, which was only going to contribute to making the
problem worse, more incoming mails, more queued
mails.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=725004715-19102007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>With this, the
server started sending the queued mails and mail traffic was restored
with the difference that mails weren't scanned at all(they were no longer
passing through the MailScanner Server). When the mail queues were empty
again, I tried to reestablish the scanning service, but the problem appeared
again.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=725004715-19102007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>I don't have a
clear idea of what can be causing this problem. The machine is pretty old, but
the former administrator told me that it had never had problems. I think that
perhaps we are being Spam Bombed and perhaps the System poor processing
capabilities cannot resists the increasing traffic and therefore it gets stuck
and keeps enqueueing mails.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=725004715-19102007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>Please if anyone
can guide me I'll appreciate it,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>Sorry if my
English is a bit rusty, it is not my native language, therefore if you need me
to be more clear or try to give more details of something, don't hesitate to
ask so.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=725004715-19102007>Thanks in
advance!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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