MailScanner/spamassassin problem

[Jason Humphrey <Ja...@businessws.com>]

Hi,
I've put mailscanner and spamassassin on a raq350 today and run into a
little problem

Mailscanner can deliver mail fine on its own with spamassassin disabled but
when I enable spamassassin no mail is processed the output from
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart; tail -f /var/log/maillog" is:
Aug 21 17:17:30 muck MailScanner[29291]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.23-7 starting...
Aug 21 17:17:33 muck MailScanner[29291]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...
Aug 21 17:17:40 muck MailScanner[29307]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.23-7 starting...
Aug 21 17:17:43 muck MailScanner[29307]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...
Aug 21 17:17:46 muck MailScanner[29307]: Using locktype = flock
Aug 21 17:17:46 muck MailScanner[29307]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 933
bytes
Aug 21 17:17:46 muck MailScanner[29307]: TCP Checks: Starting
Aug 21 17:17:50 muck MailScanner[29309]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.23-7 starting...
Aug 21 17:17:53 muck MailScanner[29309]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...
Aug 21 17:17:56 muck MailScanner[29291]: Using locktype = flock
Aug 21 17:17:56 muck MailScanner[29291]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 933
bytes
Aug 21 17:17:56 muck MailScanner[29291]: TCP Checks: Starting
Aug 21 17:17:57 muck MailScanner[29309]: Using locktype = flock
Aug 21 17:17:57 muck MailScanner[29309]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 933
bytes
Aug 21 17:17:57 muck MailScanner[29309]: TCP Checks: Starting


This showing that mailscanner just seems to stop after a few seconds.I have
tested spamassassin with non-spam.txt and spam.txt and it works fine.
Anybody know where I need to look next to find
where its going wrong?

Thanks
Jason

Re: MailScanner/spamassassin problem

[Martin Hepworth <ma...@solid-state-logic.com>]

Jason Humphrey wrote:
> Hi,
> I've put mailscanner and spamassassin on a raq350 today and run into a
> little problem
> 
> Mailscanner can deliver mail fine on its own with spamassassin disabled but
> when I enable spamassassin no mail is processed the output from
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart; tail -f /var/log/maillog" is:
> Aug 21 17:17:30 muck MailScanner[29291]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.23-7 starting...
> Aug 21 17:17:33 muck MailScanner[29291]: Enabling SpamAssassin
> auto-whitelist functionality...
> Aug 21 17:17:40 muck MailScanner[29307]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.23-7 starting...
> Aug 21 17:17:43 muck MailScanner[29307]: Enabling SpamAssassin
> auto-whitelist functionality...
> Aug 21 17:17:46 muck MailScanner[29307]: Using locktype = flock
> Aug 21 17:17:46 muck MailScanner[29307]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 933
> bytes
> Aug 21 17:17:46 muck MailScanner[29307]: TCP Checks: Starting
> Aug 21 17:17:50 muck MailScanner[29309]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.23-7 starting...
> Aug 21 17:17:53 muck MailScanner[29309]: Enabling SpamAssassin
> auto-whitelist functionality...
> Aug 21 17:17:56 muck MailScanner[29291]: Using locktype = flock
> Aug 21 17:17:56 muck MailScanner[29291]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 933
> bytes
> Aug 21 17:17:56 muck MailScanner[29291]: TCP Checks: Starting
> Aug 21 17:17:57 muck MailScanner[29309]: Using locktype = flock
> Aug 21 17:17:57 muck MailScanner[29309]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 933
> bytes
> Aug 21 17:17:57 muck MailScanner[29309]: TCP Checks: Starting
> 
> 
> This showing that mailscanner just seems to stop after a few seconds.I have
> tested spamassassin with non-spam.txt and spam.txt and it works fine.
> Anybody know where I need to look next to find
> where its going wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> Jason
> 
John

more of mailScanner question so better to ask on the MS list...but have 
you followed this??

http://www.qitc.net/support/mailscanner/


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Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
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Re: MailScanner/spamassassin problem

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 08:07 AM 8/22/2005, Jason Humphrey wrote:

>This showing that mailscanner just seems to stop after a few seconds.I have
>tested spamassassin with non-spam.txt and spam.txt and it works fine.
>Anybody know where I need to look next to find
>where its going wrong?


That log looks somewhat normal to me and isn't alarming. Mailscanner will 
"start" multiple times as it spawns up it's children. I only see 4 starts 
there, and most people have the max children set to 5.

Does it persist in doing that indefinitely? or does it just fire up a batch 
of new threads as load demands it then stabilize until MS restarts itself 
(typically 4 hours between restarts).

It it is restarting indefinitely, have you tried checking SA by running 
spamassassin --lint? (lint should run quietly. If it prints anything, 
you've got some kind of configfile or install problem)