Deferred messages in mqueue.in

[Rose, Bobby]

I'm thinking more along the lines of incoming.  For example, if you
enable the sendmail DNSBL function it checks incoming mail.  I added
something to my .mc file and rebuilt my .cf but I didn't catch that I
had a old DNSBL entry.  I couldn't figure out why the incoming queue
kept filling up, I thought it was razor but when I checked the q files
in mqueue.in had a deferred entry at the top.

Since the files were sitting in the mqueue in, waiting for sendmail to
recheck them, I was curious if Mailscanner would grab them instead or if
it saw the Deferred statement and left them alone.



-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:36 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Deferred messages in mqueue.in


At 18:52 15/08/2002, you wrote:
>This is just a double check...
>
>Messages that come in but are currently deferred due to a sendmail 
>milter are left alone by mailscanner correct?

I've never used milters, but remember that MailScanner isn't involved in
the delivery process at all. It has sendmail just accept mail into a
queue with the "queueonly" option, which as far as I'm aware causes
sendmail to do absolutely nothing with the message apart from write it
into the queue. MailScanner then does its stuff. Then sendmail takes
over again and launches the entire delivery process (presumably invoking
milters at that point).
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