Hello Gary, Mark,

This is what postconf message_size_limit says:
# postconf message_size_limit
message_size_limit = 10240000

set of amavisd log entries for the TROUBLE message:
****************************
# grep '27727-04' mail-20051227
Dec 25 22:35:21 mail amavis[27727]: (27727-04) ESMTP::10024 
/var/spool/amavis/amavis-20051225T222829-27727: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> Received: SIZE=85704 from mydomain.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost 
(mydomain.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27727-04 for 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:35:21 +0200 (IST)
Dec 25 22:35:21 mail amavis[27727]: (27727-04) Checking: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dec 25 22:45:48 mail amavis[27727]: (27727-04) TROUBLE in check_mail: 
decoding2-get-file-types FAILED: timed out
Dec 25 22:45:48 mail amavis[27727]: (27727-04) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in 
/var/spool/amavis/amavis-20051225T222829-27727
Dec 25 22:45:48 mail amavis[27727]: (27727-04) TIMING [total 627447 ms] - SMTP 
EHLO: 1 (0%), SMTP pre-MAIL: 0 (0%), SMTP pre-DATA-flush: 3 (0%), SMTP DATA: 46 
(0%), body hash: 1 (0%), mime_decode: 31 (0%), rundown: 627363 (100%)
Dec 25 20:45:53 mail postfix/smtp[27886]: EB945D7B0A: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=634, 
status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, 
id=27727-04, decoding2-get-file-types FAILED: timed out (in reply to end of 
DATA command))



The output of 'amavisd debug':
********************
mail:/var/spool/amavis # su vscan
mail:/var/spool/amavis # /usr/sbin/amavisd debug
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: starting.  amavisd at 
mail.mydomain.com amavisd-new-20030616-p9, Unicode aware, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Perl version               
5.008003
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Amavis::Conf        
1.15
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Archive::Tar        
1.08
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Archive::Zip        
1.14
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Compress::Zlib      
1.33
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Convert::TNEF       
0.17
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Convert::UUlib      1.0
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module DB_File             
1.808
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module MIME::Entity        
5.404
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module MIME::Parser        
5.406
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module MIME::Tools         
5.411
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Mail::Header        
1.60
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Mail::Internet      
1.60
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Mail::SpamAssassin  
2.64
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Net::Cmd            
2.24
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Net::DNS            
0.46
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Net::SMTP           
2.26
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Net::Server         
0.87
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Time::HiRes         
1.52
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Module Unix::Syslog        
0.100
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found myself: 
/usr/sbin/amavisd -c /etc/amavisd.conf
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Lookup::SQL code       NOT 
loaded
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Lookup::LDAP code      NOT 
loaded
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: AMCL-in protocol code  loaded
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: SMTP-in protocol code  loaded
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: ANTI-VIRUS code        loaded
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: ANTI-SPAM  code        loaded
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Net::Server: 
2005/12/31-14:14:38 Amavis (type Net::Server::PreForkSimple) starting! 
pid(15231)
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Net::Server: Binding to UNIX 
socket file /var/spool/amavis/amavisd.sock using SOCK_STREAM
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Net::Server: Binding to TCP 
port 10024 on host 127.0.0.1
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Net::Server: Setting gid to 
"101 101"
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Net::Server: Setting uid to 
"65"
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Net::Server: Setting up 
serialization via flock
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $file       at 
/usr/bin/file
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $arc        at 
/usr/bin/arc
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $gzip       at 
/usr/bin/gzip
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $bzip2      at 
/usr/bin/bzip2
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No $lzop,         not using it
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $lha        at 
/usr/bin/lha
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $unarj      at 
/usr/bin/unarj
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $uncompress at 
/usr/bin/gzip -d
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No $unfreeze,     not using it
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $unrar      at 
/usr/bin/unrar
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $zoo        at 
/usr/bin/zoo
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found $cpio       at 
/usr/bin/cpio
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Using internal av scanner 
code for (primary) Clam Antivirus-clamd
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
KasperskyLab AVP - aveclient
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
KasperskyLab AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP)
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
KasperskyLab AVPDaemonClient
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: H+BEDV 
AntiVir or CentralCommand Vexira Antivirus
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
Command AntiVirus for Linux
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
Symantec CarrierScan via Symantec CommandLineScanner
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: drweb 
- DrWeb Antivirus
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
F-Secure Antivirus
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: CAI 
InoculateIT
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
MkS_Vir for Linux (beta)
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
MkS_Vir daemon
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: ESET 
Software NOD32
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: ESET 
Software NOD32 - Client/Server Version
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: Norman 
Virus Control v5 / Linux
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: Panda 
Antivirus for Linux
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: NAI 
McAfee AntiVirus (uvscan)
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
VirusBuster
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
CyberSoft VFind
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: Ikarus 
AntiVirus for Linux
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No primary av scanner: 
BitDefender
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Found secondary av scanner 
Clam Antivirus - clamscan at /usr/bin/clamscan
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No secondary av scanner: 
FRISK F-Prot Antivirus
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No secondary av scanner: 
Trend Micro FileScanner
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: No secondary av scanner: 
KasperskyLab kavscanner
Dec 31 14:14:38 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: SpamControl: initializing 
Mail::SpamAssassin
Dec 31 14:14:39 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: SpamControl: done
Dec 31 14:14:39 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Net::Server: Beginning 
prefork (2 processes)
Dec 31 14:14:39 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Net::Server: Starting "2" 
children
Dec 31 14:14:39 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15232]: Net::Server: Child Preforked 
(15232)
Dec 31 14:14:39 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15231]: Net::Server: Parent ready for 
children.
Dec 31 14:14:39 mail.mydomain.com amavisd[15233]: Net::Server: Child Preforked 
(15233)
-------------------------------

Sorry I don't have any preserved evidence at:
/var/spool/amavis/amavis-20051225T222829-27727/email.txt

I've deleted this folder along with many other folders residing at 
/var/spool/amavis and taken GB of the FS at the time of the problem discovered.



Could you conclude something on the amavisd problem I had from the information 
presented above?

Could I do something to prevent these kind of problems happening again in the 
future?



Best Regards,
Leon Kolchinsky




-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary V
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:51 PM
To: amavis-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [AMaViS-user] RE: How to clean /var/spool/amavis directory 
automatically

lkolchin wrote:

> Hi,

> I've run (find /var/spool/amavis -type d -name 'amavis-*' -prune -mmin +30 
> -exec rm -rf {} \;
> Restarted amavisd-new, clamAV and postfix, and it seems to work OK now,
> But I want to avoid this in the future and find the cause of that bug.

> These are the versions installed on my server:
> amavisd-new-20030616p9-3.6                    Tue Sep  6 16:46:59 2005
> spamassassin-2.64-3.2                         Tue Sep  6 16:46:51 2005
> perl-spamassassin-2.64-3.2                    Tue Sep  6 16:46:30 2005

> As far as I can see I've started to get "status=deferred" messages at Dec 22 
> 04:24:01 and this message repeated every 16 min.
> not only for [EMAIL PROTECTED] user but also for other users:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------

> Dec 22 04:24:01 mail postfix/pipe[24644]: 054301BB9B: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> relay=cyrus, delay=231660, status=defer
> red (temporary failure)
> Dec 22 04:24:01 mail postfix/pipe[24641]: 49FB41F5F9: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> relay=cyrus, delay=142821, status=defer
> red (temporary failure)
> Dec 22 04:24:01 mail postfix/pipe[24644]: 9D4321F5CA: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> relay=cyrus, delay=230213, status=defer
> red (temporary failure)

The above appears to be a problem with cyrus (or the user's mailbox? Dunno).

> Dec 22 04:24:31 mail postfix/smtp[24635]: connect to 24.on.cc[66.246.195.41]: 
> Connection timed out (port 25)
> Dec 22 04:24:31 mail postfix/smtp[24635]: 2DD121F5CB: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> relay=none, delay=202768, status=deferred (connect t
> o 24.on.cc[66.246.195.41]: Connection timed out)
> Dec 22 04:24:31 mail postfix/smtp[24637]: connect to 
> linux.uovs.ac.za[196.21.181.2]: Connection timed out (port 25)
> Dec 22 04:24:31 mail postfix/smtp[24639]: connect to 24.on.cc[66.246.195.41]: 
> Connection timed out (port 25)
> Dec 22 04:24:31 mail postfix/smtp[24640]: connect to 
> linux.uovs.ac.za[196.21.181.2]: Connection timed out (port 25)
> Dec 22 04:24:31 mail postfix/smtp[24637]: 801141F5E5: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> relay=none, delay=202450, status=deferred (
> connect to linux.uovs.ac.za[196.21.181.2]: Connection timed out)
> Dec 22 04:24:31 mail postfix/smtp[24639]: 8F64F1C4EE: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> relay=none, delay=202451, status=deferred (connect t
> o 24.on.cc[66.246.195.41]: Connection timed out)
> Dec 22 04:24:31 mail postfix/smtp[24640]: E771C1B44E: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> relay=none, delay=202770, status=deferred (
> connect to linux.uovs.ac.za[196.21.181.2]: Connection timed out)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------

The above appear to be normal undeliverable DSNs, not a problem.

> It seems that some users got this message and some got their mail as they 
> should.

What message are you referring to?

> I see "TROUBLE" message on Dec 25 22:45:48 (See below):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dec 25 22:45:48 mail amavis[27727]: (27727-04) TROUBLE in check_mail: 
> decoding2-get-file-types FAILED: timed out
> Dec 25 22:45:48 mail amavis[27727]: (27727-04) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in 
> /var/spool/amavis/amavis-20051225T222829-27727
> Dec 25 22:45:48 mail amavis[27727]: (27727-04) TIMING [total 627447 ms] - 
> SMTP EHLO: 1 (0%), SMTP pre-MAIL: 0 (0%), SMTP pre-
> DATA-flush: 3 (0%), SMTP DATA: 46 (0%), body hash: 1 (0%), mime_decode: 31 
> (0%), rundown: 627363 (100%)

This is where the amavisd-new problem is. Don't know what the cause
is. What does 'postconf message_size_limit' say? Maybe you should show
the output of 'amavisd debug' so we can see what versions of external
programs you are using. Maybe it would be of some use to see the
entire set of amavisd log entries for this particular message.

grep '27727-04' /var/log/maillog (for example)

It may be of use to also look at the preserved evidence:
/var/spool/amavis/amavis-20051225T222829-27727/email.txt
to see if it tells any stories.

> Dec 25 22:45:49 mail postfix/smtpd[28010]: too many errors after RCPT from 
> bzq-224-205.red.bezeqint.net[212.179.224.205]
> Dec 25 22:45:49 mail postfix/smtpd[28010]: disconnect from 
> bzq-224-205.red.bezeqint.net[212.179.224.205]
> Dec 25 22:45:50 mail postfix/smtpd[28010]: connect from 
> mr1.haifa.ac.il[132.74.1.39]

The above log entries are unrelated to any of this, and are normal.

> Any thoughts/suggestions?

> Regards,
> Leon

Gary V



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