[AMaViS-user] Amavis-perl/Exim/FreeBSD - Amavis-perl seems to stall.

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Hi All

Installed the port from /usr/ports and saw that all was good, after a short
discussion with myself regarding how the system should be setup, I found
that sending a mail to my box never came through. Short pondering about that
and threw exim into -d9 from commandline so I could follow what was going
on.

----  The transport is like this ----amavis:
  driver = pipe 
  command = "/usr/local/sbin/amavis -f ${sender_address} -d
${pipe_addresses}"
  prefix =
  suffix =
  check_string =
  escape_string = 
#for debugging change return_output to true
  return_output =true
  return_path_add = false
  user = amavis
  group = amavis
  path = "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
  current_directory = "/var/amavis"

----  The director is like this ----
amavis_director:
  condition = "${if eq {$received_protocol}{scanned-ok} {0}{1}}"
  driver = smartuser
  transport = amavis

---- With -d9 Exim tells me the following ----
  delivering xxxx@xxxx as xxxx using amavis:
  uid=1020 gid=1020 home=NULL current=/var/amavis
  auxiliary group list: 1020
set_process_info: 50449 delivering 16gMFk-000D7f-00 to sps using amavis
amavis transport entered
direct command:
  argv[0] = /usr/local/sbin/amavis
  argv[1] = -f
  argv[2] = ${sender_address}
  argv[3] = -d
  argv[4] = ${pipe_addresses}
direct command after expansion:
  argv[0] = /usr/local/sbin/amavis
  argv[1] = -f
  argv[2] = xx...@xx...x
  argv[3] = -d
  argv[4] = xx...@xx...x
Writing message to pipe
set_process_info: 50451 reading output from |/usr/local/sbin/amavis -f
${sender_address} -d ${pipe_addresses}
writing data block fd=9 size=0 timeout=3600
writing data block fd=9 size=336 timeout=3600
writing data block fd=9 size=0 timeout=3600

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Exim still receives mail, but it's never delivered to the address, a 'ps ax'
shows that amavis is still running .. First I thought, amavis-perl simply
took some time before finishing, though last time I tried it, it more or
less ran through without any glitches. After an hour, it still hadn't
finished and mails vere piling up without getting anywhere.

So, I thought it was a problem with rights, so that was triplechecked, still
nothing and the user amavis exists. Finally I saved one of my mails and gave
it the same commandline as was shown in the ps. Took less than a second to
complete, mind you this was one of those that I never saw finish.

I've tried more or less every combination that I could think of, amavis
still defies my attempts to make it work in an orderly fashion.

So, now I'm empty for ideas and most definately open to suggestions or
questions that might spring new ideas :)


S. P. Skou