mailscanner & exim

[Rajesh Fowkar]

Hi,

I am on dial-up connection at my home. Now after configuring mailscanner &
exim everything works fine mail is checked, warning sent. But if I send a
mail to outside domain from my home machine say xyz at yahoo.com than the mail
is scanned and than it waits in /var/spool/exim/input

But when I do mailq nothing is visible. I have got two spool directories :

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
rajesh at debian:/var/spool$ l
total 36
drwxr-xr-x    4 mail     mail         4096 Dec 16 19:37 MailScanner
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Aug 28 19:51 cron
drwxr-x---    5 mail     mail         4096 Aug 28 20:02 exim
drwxr-x---    5 mail     mail         4096 Dec 16 20:22 exim_incoming
drwxr-xr-x    4 sweep    sweep        4096 Oct 30 00:57 intercheck
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Jul 26 22:05 lpd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            7 Jul 14 19:44 mail -> ../mail
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     12           4096 Aug 29 11:39 mqueue.in
drwxr-sr-x    5 news     news         4096 Dec 16 21:00 slrnpull
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Aug  1 00:43 texmf
rajesh at debian:/var/spool$
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

What I should do to send the mail waiting in /var/spool/exim/input but not
showing in mailq ?

I have created two exim conf files :

rajesh at debian:/etc$ l exim*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        15087 Dec 16 22:12 exim.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14677 Dec 16 21:51 exim_outgoing.conf
rajesh at debian:/etc$


added the following in exim.conf :

# Settings for Mailscanner
########################################
spool_directory=/var/spool/exim_incoming
queue_only=true
########################################

In /etc/init.d/mailscanner, the following lines are present :

-------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/sbin/exim -bd
/usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim_outgoing.conf -bd -q15m
/usr/local/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner >/dev/null
-------------------------------------------------------------

Please help.

Due to the above I am unable to send mail while offline. I am sending this
mail while I am online. This I cannot afford being a dial-up user.

Thanks in advance.

Peace


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