MailScanner and Ensim Webppliance

[Julian Field]

At 21:17 12/12/2002, you wrote:
>Yes, MailScanner and incoming sendmail are still operating.  Seems to be
>the exact same symptoms as on Daron's box.
>Let me know what you find out with regards to fixing that.  Looking
>forward to getting it running here!  Thanks.

Hopefully Daron will post the 2 files to this list very shortly so that
everyone benefits from them.


>Mark
>
>
>Julian Field wrote:
>
>>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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>--
>>Julian Field
>>www.MailScanner.info
>>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support