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Hello,

I am getting around 100,000 emails in my mail queue manager each day and this is maxing out /var disk space, causing big problems.

I have to keep deleting the mail queue daily, so this is a big problem for me.

I got recommended to speak to chirpy here from Web Hosting Talk.

Any chance you can help and how much would it cost,

Thanks,

Leon

after installing mailscanner i get very high loads like 30 and 40.

i get processes like /usr/local/bin/clamscan --tempdir=/tmp/clamav.1524 -r --no-summary --stdout eating out 100% processor.

the process owner is mailnull.

can someone help me with this one? why is it even eating so much resources?

i have constant load of 20 and 30 for the last 4-5 hours. and the mail queue is almost empty...

mail shows as white listed in Mail watch and no such domains are whitelisted in /usr/mailscanner/etc

the mail scanner recently was reinstalled by your folks on a new server drive after drive failure

Ive seen some kinda wacky things in mail scanner - today an email is whitelisted in mail watch BUT that domain is not listed in the spam.whitelist.rules

Ive also seen different email that wasnt...

Hi Guys,

Wondering if you can help, ever since a cPanel update yesterday, we have been unable to receive emails. Looking at the logs and queues, when we try and process emails we get:

== xx@xx.xxx R=defer_router defer (-1): All deliveries are handled by MailScanner

I have searched for a solution and have downgraded my PathTools to v3.2501 re installed MailScanner and restart the services with...

I upgraded mailscanner ClamAV and cpanel frontend
yesterday and now when I check status in the frontend it says mailscanner is not running
yet in whm services it says it is.
I dont think it is acually working for the user accounts.

Has anyone else experienced this problem
Does anyone know the solution.

Cheers
Sean

Now that Julian has, in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of MS, re-announced ScamNailer just wondering if you have any interest in including it in upcoming MS installs?

Thank you.

Hi there,

your company did the Mailscanner configuration on all our servers. This is great, he gets most of the SPAM.

We use QuadCore servers, with 8GB RAM, and have a maximum of 300 accounts by server.

All servers have a similar workload.

One of the servers, in the last 3 weeks, is getting a load a little bit higher (around 8) and memory usage between 1 and 2 GB.

Always, we have on top this...

Is there any aspect of MailScanner or CSF that can be used as a system-wide, keyword based anti-spam filter?

Let's say that I wanted to send to /dev/null all incoming email with the word viagra in the subject line. How would I do this?

Thanks much.

We get this when attempting to update ClamAV via the MailScannerFE. I've tried everything I can find, without any luck so far:

UNAME_VERSION = #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:54 EDT 2009
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
/usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf converted...

I got the notice today that there was a clamav upgrade. So I logged into 3 of my servers to perform the upgrade. 2 are fine. One the clamd service keeps failing.

I have forced clamav update.
I have forced Mailscanner Update.
I have forced MSFE update
I have forced cPanel Update.

Nothing fixed this.

At the end of the clamav upgrade it says:

ClamAV update process started at Fri Apr 2 09:57:27...

We have a lot of spam like this and we can't understand why these messages have lower scores like 0.329.

Return-path:
Envelope-to: antonio@customerdomain.com
Delivery-date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:26:28 +0100
Received: from (helo=sdpgsdcds147.us.infonet.com)
by servername.dnsname.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from )
id 1NrR9j-0007Tq-JQ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:25:35 +0100
Received: from...

I used to have a very large bayes database, but today I noticed that it has been wiped off.

Questions:
1) Which are the directories that must be backed-up to recover the Bayes database in such circumstances?

2) What could possibly have wiped it? Is there settings in Mailscanner or MSFE that could have done it? Scripts that run or could be reset by a MSFE update?

3) Are there any logs where I...

We moved our mail server to a different datacenter which caused the IP to change. The server was physically moved in case there is any question on that. Same server, different IP address.

Now we get a MSFE is not licensed for this server error.

Does anyone know how to update the license. This was a purchased mailscanner/csf installation.

Everytime I get a zip file with PDF's it them mailscanner flags them as executable s and blocks the zip is this normal behavior? What rules am I missing?

Example

One or more of the attachments (index.xml.gz, DissectionApplicationForm.pdf, Dissection Clinic Host pack.zip, Thumbnail.jpg, PkgInfo, DISCLAIMER.pdf, USLOGOINFLAG.jpg, .DS_Store) are on
the list of unacceptable attachments for this...

Hello,

I’m contacting you about ZIP archive from MAC

From a couple days every ZIP archive is blocked by MailScanner, can you tell me why and how can we resolve this issue ?

The message is something linke that:

One or more of the attachments (._DisplayCocaCola.ai, Display Coca Cola.zip, DisplayCocaCola.ai) are on
the list of unacceptable attachments for this site and will not have
been...

install falls over when looking for certain files:

--2010-02-12 12:58:12-- (try: 8) ttp://69.50.192.73/pub/CPAN/authors/id/cPCPAN/Net-SSLeay-1.3.tar.gz
Connecting to 69.50.192.73:80...
failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2010-02-12 13:01:29-- (try: 9) ttp://69.50.192.73/pub/CPAN/authors/id/cPCPAN/Net-SSLeay-1.3.tar.gz
Connecting to 69.50.192.73:80... failed: Connection timed out....

Hi,

I'm not sure if I should be posting here or in the front-end forum. If I'm in the wrong place please let me know!

I have used the MailScanner install script - it works great, but I haven't implemented the cpanel front end. This is OK but I'm running into the following problem.

When I manually add an external domain name to spam.whitelist.rules it gets removed by mscpanel.pl:

example.co.uk...

how mark as legitimate mail to all that has been authenticated by smtp ?

Thanks

Paul

Hi,
My clamav server is down and I am receiving thousands of clamd failed mails.
I have already forced the update of Mailscanner, clamav and MSFE, but
The only report I saw during clamav update was:
Stopping clamd:
Starting clamd:

Anyone has the same issue? What more should I check to trace the origin of the problem?

Thanks
Hilário
clamd failed @ Sun Jan 10 09:52:28 2010. A restart was...

Hi,

I notice that the email starting with &ecaute; (é - small e with acute accent) are quarantined. To reproduce it, the email must be send from a webmail (like gmail), with Outlook not happens.

I tried some instructions found on Internet:
h t t p://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-May/091419.html
with no success, or the message is quarantined or seems like all executable...