mailscanner

[Jake McHenry]

I think that may be the problem, brain fart.. sorry.. I think i left SA 
running when trying to start mailscanner, I'll try it tonight after everyone 
leaves. That would definitly cause the memory errors I was seeing, if 
mailscanner was trying to start another instance of SA.

>
> 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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