Confused about Queues

[Dawes, Stephen]

Yes, when I installed MailScanner, I took the steps to turn sendmail off. 
Service sendmail stop
chkconfig sendmail off

A subsequent re-boot of the computer confirmed that sendmail was indeed not running, as it did not start as part of the boot routine, and a ps -e did not list sendmail either.

After which I did a:
chkconfig MailScanner on
service MailScanner start
which resulted in MailScanner and sendmail now showing up in the ps -e output. ( A good thing I thought! )

As to the first part of your note, the results of a ps query done a few minutes ago are shown with the calling command below.

ps -e -l |grep ail
140 S     0  1645     1  0  69   0    -  1240 do_sel ?        00:00:00 sendmail
040 S     0  1650     1  0  69   0    -  1217 pause  ?        00:00:00 sendmail
040 S     0  1659     1  0  69   0    -  3740 wait4  ?        00:00:00 MailScann
040 S     0  1662  1659  0  69   0    -  3764 nanosl ?        00:00:01 MailScann

Does this shead any light?

Steve Dawes
PH:  (403) 268-5527. 
Mailto:  sdawes at calgary.ca 



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spicer, Kevin [mailto:KevinS at BMRB.CO.UK]
> Sent: 2002 December 20 7:59 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Confused about Queues
> 
> 
> clientmqueue is specified in /etc/mail/submit.cf (on Mandrake 
>  & I guess the same on RedHat) this cf file is used by the 
> sm-client submission service (another sendmail service), 
> which I believe is used by local programs to add mail to the 
> mailqueue.  Check how many sendmail processes you have 
> running (you may have many, depending on your load - but only 
> two should have a PPID of 1).  Maybe you didn't chkconfig 
> sendmail off?
> 
> You can tell if the messages in the queue have been scanned 
> by looking for X-MailScanner: headers in the qf files in the 
> clientmqueue.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dawes, Stephen [mailto:Stephen.Dawes at GOV.CALGARY.AB.CA]
> > Sent: 20 December 2002 14:43
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Confused about Queues
> > 
> > 
> > I am not sure what is happening on my configuration, but I 
> > have apparently 3 mail queues in the /var/spool directory.
> > mqueue
> > mqueue.in
> > clientmqueue
> > 
> > From what I can best determine, all of my messages are 
> > stalling in the clientmqueue. What I am unable to tell, is if 
> > the mail is being scanned by MailScanner before it is hitting 
> > the clientmqueue, or if the mail is being hung up before it 
> > even gets to MailScanner.
> > 
> > How can I get rid of the clientmqueue being referenced at 
> > all? Additionally, what is this queue and where did it come from?
> > 
> > When I look at the MailScanner.conf file, there is no mention 
> > of this queue, and my incoming and outgoing queues are the 
> > default set by the package.
> > 
> > BTW: I am using Red Hat 8 with sendmail-8.12.5.
> > 
> > I know that we are to restrain ourselves from asking sendmail 
> > questions on this list, but I have looked in a lot of places 
> > including sendmail.org, and I have been unable to solve my dilemma.
> > 
> > 
> > Steve Dawes
> > PH:  (403) 268-5527. 
> > Mailto:  sdawes at calgary.ca 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > The City of Calgary thanks you for your attention and cooperation.
> > 
>