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After upgrading Plesk 9.5.4 to 10.4.4 e-mail was no longer being scanned by qmail-scanner. I tried reinstalling qmail-scanner and qmail-scanner-reconfigure, but now the server gets overloaded with /usr/bin/perl -T /dev/fd/3//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl processes as soon as SMTP gets enabled. Any ideas?

yeah dont use plesk 10.4.4

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scott wrote:yeah dont use plesk 10.4.4

Anything in particular you don't like about Plesk 10.4.4 or were you just trying to be funny?

Mail worked fine after reinstalling Plesk's qmail stack. Reinstalling qmail-scanner was what broke it again. Which is a little strange because we've done a bunch of fresh installs of Plesk 10 and have installed qmail-scanner on those servers without problems.

You know I try to care about their madness, then I find stuff like this:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxlive/#

It seems the upgrading Plesk 10.3.1 to Plesk 10.4.4 also breaks qmail-scanner.

Do the following commands to fix this:

1. Run yum remove qmail-scanner
2. Run /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/autoinstaller and switch to Postfix.
3. Run /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/autoinstaller again and switch back to Qmail.
4. Run /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk
5. Run yum install qmail-scanner

If anyone knows of an easier way to get qmail-scanner back to life I'd love to hear it. Simply reinstalling the qmail-scanner package doesn't work and even results in more and more nested and hanging qmail-scanner processes which will eventually kill the server.

If removing qmail-scanner left /etc/qmail-scanner.ini.rpmsave behind then run the following to get back your old settings:

We are on 10.4.4 and have had problems with qmail-scanner... we used to get the mail subject come up in the mail log, but no longer do. How can we check if we have the same issue?

Thanks

Check the mailheaders on e-mails that are received by mailboxes on your server. Do they have a header saying the e-mail was scanned by qmail-scanner?

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It appears not.

The workaround I posted above should fix that. I don't know what the workaround fixes exactly yet, so I don't know if there is an easier way.

Thanks Breun! Worked a treat.

Thanks Bruen worked for me too! I was upgrading from Plesk 10.3.1 to 10.4.4 Dec 19, and got the runaway processes with qmail-scanner.

I am too dumb to understand why it works, but I trust your solutions to get me going again!

Thanks!

I am having the same trouble and none of these solutions helped.

It's been infuriating --

If I swap between postfix and qmail - the errors are still there.
After mchk, errors are still there.
Installing qmail-scanner again? Server launches 1,000s of child processes until it hangs.

I've seen the permissions solution all over the internet also, and wow. Simply doesn't work.

Anyone around to reach out incase I cannot solve this?

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BTW - when swapped to postfix, I get:


Jan 19 15:36:01 server /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/psa-pc-remote[11710]: mkstemp(/usr/local/psa/handlers/spool/mlfi.secssV) failed: No such file or directory

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Which is essentially the same error about permissions...

Did you follow the exact steps I posted above? Not pretty, but worked every time for us.

breun wrote:Did you follow the exact steps I posted above? Not pretty, but worked every time for us.

Yes, and multiple times.

remove qmail-scanner (which I'm not adding back)
autoinstaller - postfix
autoinstaller - qmail
mchk
service qmail start

no dice.

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Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1686]: cannot create temporary file - (2) No such file or directory
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1686]: cannot read message from stdin
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail: 1327011150.202806 warning: trouble injecting bounce message, will try later
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1687]: Handlers Filter before-queue for qmail started ...
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1687]: cannot create temporary file - (2) No such file or directory
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1687]: cannot read message from stdin
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail: 1327011150.210871 warning: trouble injecting bounce message, will try later
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1688]: Handlers Filter before-queue for qmail started ...
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1688]: cannot create temporary file - (2) No such file or directory
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1688]: cannot read message from stdin
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail: 1327011150.218977 warning: trouble injecting bounce message, will try later
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1689]: Handlers Filter before-queue for qmail started ...
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1689]: cannot create temporary file - (2) No such file or directory
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1689]: cannot read message from stdin
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail: 1327011150.227035 warning: trouble injecting bounce message, will try later
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1690]: Handlers Filter before-queue for qmail started ...
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1690]: cannot create temporary file - (2) No such file or directory
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1690]: cannot read message from stdin
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail: 1327011150.235518 warning: trouble injecting bounce message, will try later
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1691]: Handlers Filter before-queue for qmail started ...
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1691]: cannot create temporary file - (2) No such file or directory
Jan 19 16:12:30 server qmail-queue-handlers[1691]: cannot read message from stdin