Outgoing mail problems

[Julian Field]

At 10:39 05/12/2002, you wrote:
>Sendmail is actually OK for sending - but only from localhost i.e. webmail,
>bbs's etc. not from users connecting from outside. The problem was that
>sometimes it didn't send some e-mails whilst happily sending others. I've
>just rebuilt MailScanner and it seems to be working OK now. Is there a way I
>can check if MailScanner is holding back outgoing mail ?

MailScanner is not involved in the delivery of mail at all, except for
telling sendmail to try delivering messages it has scanned (when using
"Delivery Method = batch").

Once the messages are in /var/spool/mqueue, they are sendmail's problem,
not MailScanner's.


>Cheers
>
>Huw
>
>
> > On 3 Dec 2002 at 0:00, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> > > I've just set-up MailScanner 4.05-3 from RPM on a RH8 box running
> > > Sendmail and F-prot (Dual P3 1GHz., 768Mb RAM). Load is really
> > light -
> > > no more than a few hundred e-mails a day at the mo. Incoming mail
> > > seems to be perfect - 100% success. Problem is that some outgoing
> > > e-mails get sent OK through the system - others seem to disappear
> > into
> > > a queue and not get sent at all. Can anybody suggest what might be
> > > wrong ?
> >
> > The default RedHat setup (for 7.x anyway) has relaying disabled by
> > default.
> >
> > Find /etc/sendmail.mc or /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (depending on where it
> > is in a RH8 box).
> >
> > You need to comment out (prefix 'dnl ') to the four line below (I've
> > left the comment in):
> >
> > dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device
> > 127.0.0.1
> > dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you
> > want
> > dnl to accept email over the network.
> > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
> >
> > Then run it through m4 to create your new sendmail.cf file.
> >
> > Francis.
> >
> > --
> > See www.SeeIT.org for web site design.
> > ---
> > Francis Crossen,
> > 149 Smithfield Village, Dublin 7, Ireland.
> >
> > e: francis at crossen.org p: +353 86 2448040 f: +353 86 52448040

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