Confused about Queues

[Dawes, Stephen]

According to /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue.in
Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue

So, does this mean that MailScanner is some how not picking up these settings?



Steve Dawes
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spicer, Kevin [mailto:KevinS at BMRB.CO.UK]
> Sent: 2002 December 20 9:07 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Confused about Queues
> 
> 
> > 140 S root      1645     1  0  69   0    -  1240 do_sel Dec17 
> > ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections             
> >                                     
> > 040 S root      1650     1  0  69   0    -  1217 pause  Dec17 
> > ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for 
> > /var/spool/mqueue
> 
> Okay, looks like the queue runner is using the right queue - 
> which is why your mail isn't going out - so either 
> Mailscanner is causing it to end up in the wrong queue, or 
> the incoming sendmail is queueing in the wrong place
> 
> > 
> > grep mqueue /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> > O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue
> > #O ControlSocketName=/var/spool/mqueue/.control
> > #
> 
> And sendmail seems to have the correct queue in the cf file
> 
> > 
> > grep X-Mail /var/spool/clientmqueue/qf*
> > #
> > returns nothing. From this, am I to assume that the mail is 
> > not being scanned?
> >
> 
> Seems reasonable
> 
> So it looks like incoming mail is going into clientmqueue not 
> mqueue.in.  I'd check your init script to make sure its set 
> to use the correct queue.  Are you sure this is all mail 
> (incoming and outgoing), or just mail sent from the machine 
> hosting the mailscanner?
> 
> It might be informative to take a look at some of the headers 
> in the qf files to see whats happening.
>