Dave Sill wrote:
> Anyone ever heard of Webshield? Are they really bundling qmail?
>
The product is Networks Associates Webshield for SMTP. We have a site licence
for all NAI products, and as I was being forced into a quick fix for virus
checking all Internet email I had this included as part of a major system
upgrade. Only after a while did I discover an installation of qmail, and
nothing in the NAI documentation about qmail. At least they included the
qmail man and bin directories. NAI are not currently shipping Webshield SMTP
- but it's still on their ftp site and distributed product CD.
My assumption (and I haven't done much investigation) is that when the mail
server receives mail it passes it to qmail which passes it through the virus
checker and then on to a separate mail service (sendmail) for final delivery
(or the other way round). One of the configuration files for qmail
references the
Virus scanning (/var/qmail/control/virusscan).
There never seems to be anything in the queue itself (qread)
presumably since qmail passes everything on to sendmail to actually send, but
there are a whole lot of file references in the intd directory (mainly the
same external sender/internal recipient combination) and the corresponding
entries in the mess subdirs are definitely of the "WIN A MILLION" category.
qstat reports about 250 entries, but 0 in the second line. We did have a
problem with the reappearance of a 4Mb file that wasn't being cleared, and
having about a dozen copies of it in the mess/ subdir structure, made the
disk fill up quite quickly (especially when someone then tried to send 168Mb
attachment). However, the 4Mb file seems to have gone from the queue - after
about a week, but the 2Mb file, and the hundreds of 4k files are still there
and they've certainly been around for a week or two now. Am I right in
thinking that the retry table (40 attempts at increasing periods) would
continue for about ten weeks before giving up?
Hope this gives you some more info to the problem. I've had some
communication from one of the other list members but offline. If anything is
successful, I/we'll post the findings.
I ran queue-fix which removed about a dozen entries from intd.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the problem will eventually time itself out,
and no real solution will be found. For some reason there must be a clean up
operation as the mess subdirs never have any files in them older than a
couple of days.
Thanks for advice. I shall persevere ...
Wallace
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