MailScanner and Ensim Webppliance

Mark Lundy mark at NEWSUMMITMEDIA.COM
Wed Dec 11 21:33:29 GMT 2002


I have the same issues.  Even with the fixes in place from this post,
mail comes to a halt on my Ensim server with MailScanner running.  I
would appreciate getting copied on anything you or Julian come up with.
 I'll keep plugging along and let you know
if i come up with anything.  Thanks.

Mark

Lists Only - Daron wrote:

>I had pretty much the same problem solved by this forum pos ( see notes
>after installing MS}:
>http://forum.rackshack.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=61109#post61109
>
>Now my problem is that Sendmail outgoing will just stop but incoming will
>continue to process just not deliver. I have to restart MS and sendmail
>several times a day. Julian is looking at it but neither of us can find the
>problem.
>
>-Daron
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Lundy" <mark at NEWSUMMITMEDIA.COM>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 11:23 AM
>Subject: Re: MailScanner and Ensim Webppliance
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>>No, actually, it doesn't work on my machine!  Every time I start up
>>MailScanner, I get complaints from users that they are not receiving
>>
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>emails.
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>>I wouldn't want to have the domain's root dir fill up with orphaned,
>>queued emails!  You say your script copies them to
>>/home/virtual/[domain_name]/fst/var/spool/mqueue, right?  Why copy them,
>>why not just move them there?  Or, what do you do with the orphaned
>>files in the domain's root dir after copying?
>>Point taken on disabling /etc/init.d/sendmail script.
>>I'll worry more about bandwidth monitoring after I get MailScanner
>>
>>
>working!
>
>
>>Mark
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>>
>>Steffan Henke wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark Lundy wrote:
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>>>>I see what you're doing.  What version of MailScanner are you using?  I
>>>>have 4.10-1, and sendmail v8.11.6-3ensim1, which already has the
>>>>
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>>>I am using mailscanner-4.04-1, same sendmail as you. The day I have some
>>>spare time, I'll give 4.10 a try.
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>>>>preloading of Ensim libs in its /etc/init.d/sendmail startup script.
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>>>Don't use the sendmail initscript anymore once you use mailscanner !
>>>I made a symlink to /etc/init.d/MailScanner.
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>>>>There's really nothing else different between what you sent me and my
>>>>install already!  Still a conundrum why queued mail gets orphaned in the
>>>>domain's root dir.  Seems only outgoing mail is affected by this
>>>>
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>anomaly.
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>>>Yep, but why bother as long as they get copied by that small script ?
>>>The more important issue for me is the bandwidth monitoring.
>>>But apart from that - it does work on your machine, doesn't it ?
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Steffan
>>>
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