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Start up script stalls on QmailScanner launch

When placing the line to set the EnvironmentVariable

QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl"

in /service/qmail-smtpd/run, qmail-smtpd won't start up because the run script stalls at that point. The problem is that the QmailScanner script does not background itself, so you have to tell the shell to do that by appending a &
QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl &"