MailScanner and Ensim Webppliance

[Julian Field]

At 21:33 11/12/2002, you wrote:
>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.

Can you confirm that the incoming sendmail and MailScanner itself are still
running, it's just the outgoing sendmail that dies? That seems to be what
appears to happen to Daron's Ensim box.

What I have just done on Daron's box for now is add a cron job every 5
minutes that checks to see if the outgoing sendmail has died, and restarts
it if necessary. I'll see if that works around the problem for now.

>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>emails.
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>Steffan Henke wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark Lundy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>preloading of Ensim libs in its /etc/init.d/sendmail startup script.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Don't use the sendmail initscript anymore once you use mailscanner !
>>>>I made a symlink to /etc/init.d/MailScanner.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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
>>>>>
>>anomaly.
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>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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Julian Field
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