Continuous Errors in QMail Log??

[hsmcdonald]

Hello All,

I recently started getting a continuous flow of the following errors in my qmail log:

Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.382200 starting delivery 3270: msg 31616010 to local [email protected]
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.382267 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.388795 starting delivery 3271: msg 31654043 to local [email protected]
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.388874 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.388913 delivery 3270: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_message._(#4.3.0)/
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.388955 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.412088 starting delivery 3272: msg 31616134 to local [email protected]
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.412159 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.412199 delivery 3271: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_message._(#4.3.0)/
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.412236 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.412281 delivery 3272: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_message._(#4.3.0)/
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.412317 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Mar 17 12:50:47 smcserver2 qmail: 1142625047.435406 starting delivery 3273: msg 31654038 to local

Im concerned about the ref to 'qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_message'.

These appear to be system mails, but for they are happening as some incredible frequency - about 50-70 per second.

There are 'normal' email deliveries occuring in the middle of these messages.

I have tried completely uninstalling psa-qmail - and then reinstalling
rpm -e psa-qmail
then
yum install psa-qmail

I even thought I might have something buggy in the queue, so I completely removed the mail queue /var/qmail/queue/mess on one of the re-install attempts (manually making just a 'mess' folder with proper permissions)

Has anyone had any expereience with this or suggestions on what might be wrong?

I dont know if this is maybe a spam script on my server from a host or if there is something trying to make the server email itself continuously??

 

[realaaa@]

I don't know if you will be able to get psa-qmail via yum. This is Plesk package.

Your problem looks like there is some kind of permission problem - probably some binaries have incorrect permissions.

You can check package integrity with:

# rpm -V psa-qmail

If you want to restore default permissions you need to force reinstallation of psa-qmail and drweb-qmail rpms, like this:

# rpm -Uvh --force psa-qmail drweb-qmail

You can get this rpms from Plesk distribution, usually they are stored in /root/psa

 

[hsmcdonald]

Hi - Thanks for the reply.

I ended up removing the entire queue folder (not just the mess folder) and then re-installing qmail - that seems to have done the trick. I suspect a permissions issue.