mailscanner

[Res]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Jake McHenry wrote:

> This may need to go to the mailscanner list, decided to start here incase 
> anyone knew of anything quick. I built and ran mailscanner and spamassassin a 
> while ago before my server bombed, now trying to get mailscanner running 
> again to archive mail for my boss. I have sendmail using ssl and auth, and 
> spamd through /etc/procmailrc. When i compiled and installed mailscanner, I

If you have SA installed, you do not need spamd with MailScanner, it 
will not use it anyway, it has hooks which are much faster and less 
resource intensive, so kill it for starters.


> didn't get any errors, but when I try to start it, it brings the machine to a 
> crawl in about 2 minutes, maybe less. I get booted out of ssh, and can

run   ./MailScanner --debug --lint

> Do I have to revert to the original sendmail or spamassassin configs before I 
> try to start mailscanner? I have my original spamassasin config, but didn't

You should use MailScanner config for the appropriate version, 4.58.9 
being current stable version.

> Anyone know what I can try to get this working? I know its running out of 
> memory when i start mailscanner, but it worked before :(
>

This is not good, did you use the current RPM or tarball version ?
I also dont think its MailScanner causing it, try disable SpamAssassin
in MailScanner.conf
  HUP it and see what goes, do your logs show anything out of the 
ordinary?>

> I'm still on FC3 if that helps. I can post any configs that you may want.
>
> Like I said I had it all working fine a while ago, but the new version of 
> mailscanner seems to eat up a lot more memory than the version I had before.

Shouldn't.


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Res

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