RE: [cobalt-users] Mailscanner + SpamAssassin suddenly stopped working?!

[Glenn Parsons <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:18 AM 3/30/2004, you wrote:
> Well I checked sendmail.cf just to be sure. Settings are okay, queue
> directory is pointing to /var/spool/mqueue
>
> Haven't got any /q* dirs in it also, so that's good too.
>
> Check the maillog for the queue-directory error, but it isn't there.
>
> So far all things seem to be just fine.
>
> Ps aux shows:
>
> root      6455  0.0  1.9 11312 10080 ?       S    16:42   0:00 perl
> -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> root      6458  0.1  4.2 23068 21800 ?       S    16:42   0:03 perl
> -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> root      6484  0.1  4.2 23068 21800 ?       S    16:42   0:03 perl
> -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> root      6490  0.1  4.2 23068 21804 ?       S    16:43   0:03 perl
> -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> root      6495  0.2  4.2 23068 21800 ?       S    16:43   0:03 perl
> -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> root      6528  0.1  4.2 23068 21800 ?       S    16:43   0:03 perl
> -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>
> That's 5 instances of MailScanner, seems okay too.
>
>
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming also has some dirs just recently touched
> (couple o' minutes back).
>
>
> I just can't figure out why my box is sending and receiving mail just fine,
> but mailscanner just doesn't seem to check any mail by SA or f-prot....
>
> Weird uh?


Check out the RBL checks in SpamAssassin. If you have Infinite Monkeys 
listed, that is your problem. This issue has been discussed for weeks on 
the MailScanner list group. I hope that fixes you!