Sendmail 8.9.3 ==> 8.12.x & MailScanner

[Julian Field]

At 04:03 05/08/2002, you wrote:
>I'm currently running MailScanner 3.22-7 with Sendmail 8.9.3
>and am occasionally experiencing the "Failed to link message
>body between queues" problem presumably because that version
>of Sendmail generates message-ids based on the PID of the
>Sendmail process, and during slow periods a given Sendmail
>child instance can process multiple messages with the same
>QID in the queue filename(s).  (Or something like that.)

This can occasionally happen with old sendmails, yes.

>Anyway, to get rid of the problem I'd like to upgrade Sendmail
>to one of the more(most) recent versions, say 8.12.<something>.
>
>I'm curious if there are any "gotchas" waiting around the
>corner once I try the newer Sendmail with MailScanner.  One
>little item I read in the Sendmail release notes concerning
>moving queue files around sounded like it could be a problem
>in conjunction with MailScanner (the release notes item talked
>about Sendmail "moving files back to where they are supposed
>to be").
>
>Would appreciate any heads-ups from anyone who has already
>been down this path.

I've got sendmail 8.12.<something> running quite happily. Don't take too
much notice of the submit.cf stuff, just let it do what it wants to with
that. The "clientmqueue" doesn't impact MailScanner's operation at all,
seems to run just fine here.
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