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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’m fairly sure this has nothing to do with mailscanner itself, but my MTA. When it happens my MTA doesn’t seem to be running properly (or can’t handle the emails).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve changed some permissions on the incoming and outgoing (and slow) queue’s now, according to the mailscanner sendmail configuration page. I’ll report back if it happens again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Mealing<br><b>Sent:</b> 18 July 2013 10:30<br><b>To:</b> 'MailScanner discussion (mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info)'<br><b>Subject:</b> Quarantined message * as it caused MailScanner to crash several times<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have searched for a while and I cannot find a solution to my problem. The only reference to this problem was when I reported it back in 2011.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been struggling along updating to the latest mailscanner and FreeBSD versions but this problem keeps hitting all of my servers once and a while. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Basically I get a log entry similar to this - <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jul 17 22:44:40 mailfilter6 sm-mta-in[8204]: r6HLicbY008204: to=<<a href="mailto:info@somedomain.com">info@somedomain.com</a>>, delay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=63196, stat=queued<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jul 17 22:49:53 mailfilter6 MailScanner[10329]: Making attempt 2 at processing message r6HLicbY008204<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jul 17 22:52:39 mailfilter6 MailScanner[11223]: Making attempt 3 at processing message r6HLicbY008204<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jul 17 22:55:07 mailfilter6 MailScanner[12183]: Making attempt 4 at processing message r6HLicbY008204<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jul 17 22:57:58 mailfilter6 MailScanner[13318]: Making attempt 5 at processing message r6HLicbY008204<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jul 17 23:00:48 mailfilter6 MailScanner[14702]: Making attempt 6 at processing message r6HLicbY008204<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jul 17 23:00:53 mailfilter6 MailScanner[14733]: Warning: skipping message r6HLicbY008204 as it has been attempted too many times<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jul 17 23:00:53 mailfilter6 MailScanner[14733]: Quarantined message r6HLicbY008204 as it caused MailScanner to crash several times<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jul 17 23:00:53 mailfilter6 MailScanner[14733]: Saved entire message to /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20130717/r6HLicbY008204<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It then fails on every subsequent message. To resolve I have to turn off the server and remove all the emails in the queue. If I pass the emails over to another server, say around 6000 emails, that server then has the exact same problem.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve debugged mailscanner and spamassassin, I don’t see any problems with SA, but mailscanner I get the following, still – <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can't call method "CombineReports" on unblessed reference at /usr/local/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/MessageBatch.pm line 736.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can anyone help me with this problem? I am using the –U flag, but this doesn’t make any odds to the problem.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>#!/usr/bin/perl -U -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I debug mailscanner I move the first problematic message to it’s incoming queue and run the debug (I stop mailscanner before this so it’s not running as a daemon) and I get no problems with the debug, but when I run it with over 6000 emails in the queue it comes up with the above debug message. I imagine this is a problem with timeout or such, but I’m not sure why it stops processing messages in the first place. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to fix this problem? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rich<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>