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From: Yannick Majoros (no email)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 06:32:04 EDT
Keith Matthews wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:18:26 +0200
>Yannick Majoros <> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> We have been having problems with our mail system for a couple of
>>months. Every now and then, some mailboxes get corrupted: a
>>half-truncated message, usually without headers, is at the beginning
>>of the mailbox, causing it to become unaccessible.
>>
>> For information, we use:
>>
>> - fedora core 4
>> - postfix-2.2.2-2 rpm
>> - dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4 rpm
>> - mailscanner-4.36.4-1 rpm
>>
>>
>This ^^^^^^^^^^ is probably your problem.
>
>One cannot be certain from the information you have provided, but it is
>known that Mailscanner uses undocumented (and therefore unsupported)
>interfaces in Postfix and a lot of such problems have been traced to the
>use of Mailscanner. Especially if the versions of the two have not been
>validated by the mailscanner team.
>
>Try changing to amavisd-new and see if the problem goes away.
>
>
Thank you for this fast answer?
Is amavisd-new the recommended way, or is it just an alternative that
appears to work? Just asking because I don't want to experiment much
more on this production machine, so I want to carefully select the best
next move.
Regards,
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