Mailscanner Newbie Questions

[Julian Field]

At 11:50 09/10/2001, you wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 01:50 09/10/2001, you wrote:
> > >         My understanding is that mailscanner goes ahead and starts up 2
> > >sendmail processes as evidenced by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner
> > >startup script:
> > >/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly \
> > >         -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
> > >and
> > >/usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m
> > >
> > >I assume the first one is for the incoming mail-queue, and that the second
> > >one is for the outgoing mail-queue.
> >
> > Correct.
> >
> > >I am running a standard RedHat 7.1 sendmail.cf file, w/ the addition of
> > >RBL support.
> >
> > But you just told me you overwrote your sendmail.cf file with one supplied
> > with MailScanner! What sendmail.cf *are* you running with?
>
>In the time that I had written that original message, I had gone back to
>the default sendmail.cf file. So, I am now using a sendmail.cf file that
>is a default redhat.mc + RBL support.
>
>What I believe is happening (correct me if I am wrong) is that the
>incoming QueueOnly sendmail process is using /etc/sendmail.cf, while the
>delivery sendmail process is using /etc/sendmail.cf.forwarder.mailscanner

Both sendmail processes are using the same sendmail.cf file (whatever
location was compiled into your copy of sendmail), just the incoming one
over-rides a couple of the options.

>I do have the system working now. I.E. I am able to send, disinfect and
>quarantine messages. Mail is delivered properly over to the main incoming
>mail server.

Yay! Good news. :-)

> > >  By default, this should disable open-relaying. However, when
> > >I connect to this system, I can relay. If I gank the sendmail.cf from my
> > >working mail-server which REJECTS relays unless added into the
> > >/etc/mail/access file, it STILL allows relay from anywhere on the
> > >mailscanner system.
> >
> > Define what you mean by "anywhere on the mailscanner system".
>
>Let me be more clear on that. ;)
>
>I have the domain nacs.net in /etc/mail/relay-domains. According to my
>sendmail.cf file this allows relaying from any nacs.net system. This works
>fine. Now that I have correct /etc/sendmail.cf files in place, RBL and
>AntiRelay support is working properly.
>
>Here is a copy of the .mc file that I am using for
>/etc/sendmail.cf.forwarder.mailscanner. It is a little overkill for just a
>forwarder, but what the hell....

Nothing will be using actively /etc/sendmail.cf.forwarder.mailscanner, I
just supply it as an example file that you might want to use as your
sendmail.cf file unless you already have one. Sorry if I caused any
confusion over that point, I think I'm going to remove the file from the
distribution altogether. It was only ever intended as a sample but seems to
cause endless confusion, sorry about that.

You should just use the sendmail.cf file you already had on your (working)
system before you started installing MailScanner.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ