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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Yesterday, I rebooted our MailScanner server after more than a year. There was a problem with an interface and it took an hour to bring it back up. When back up I noticed that the mqueue.in folder had grown to a couple of thousand as I have script to monitor all the queues. I didn’t think much of it because this happens, but it finally catches up after an hour or so. Well by the time I had a chance to get back to it in the evening, there were 40k messages in mquque, and incoming seemed to stay at 90. It was obvious that MailScanner was no longer processing mail. <BR>
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I see no errors in the maillog, the local dns caching server is working fine and fast as can be, and nothing else really stands out. Thinking that there were just too many emails coming in for it to handle (load was up to 47 and sendmail kept stopping and starting receiving messages). So I moved mqueue.in, mqueue, and incoming messages elsewhere and started MailScanner clean. Mqueue.in just started growing again.<BR>
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After reading some other messages, I decided the best thing might be to run in debug mode. I tried both setting debug=yes and running check_MailScanner, and running ./MailScanner —debug and both of them print a few lines, the last being SpamAssassin temp dir=blah, blah then stops. In the maillog it prints a few lines and stops as well. Isn’t debug mode supposed to process some mail, or one at a time or something. Or am I doing it wrong.<BR>
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Any other suggestions as to how to get MailScanner running or to troubleshoot this error? Or get debug mode running to see where the problem might be?<BR>
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Unfortunately I had to stop the MailScanner services and start Sendmail and let thousands of spam through so users could get email today.<BR>
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Thanks for any assistance...<BR>
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Max</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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