sendmail 8.12 and mailscanner

[Julian Field]

At 06:02 18/07/2002, you wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:40:50PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
>[snip]
> > So it doesn't use the clientmqueue directory at all. As far as I can
> > see the clientmqueue directory is only used for messages submitted by
> > invoking the sendmail binary directly. MailScanner has *never*
> > supported the sendmail binary being invoked directly
>
>Umm, but doesn't it call sendmail to send the notifications?

Yes, I meant that it doesn't support mail input by invoking sendmail directly.

>clientmqueue is used by the submission agent when it can not deliver a
>mail immediately, e.g. DNS timeouts and other temporary problems.  You
>have to run a separate queue runner to flush the mails from clientmqueue
>periodically.  A typical way to run it is:
>
>   /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q20m
>
>As far as I know, this queue runner will send the mails to the sendmail
>daemon running on the local machine through SMTP.  So, you don't need to
>worry, your mails will end up in mailscanners incoming queue.  Just
>remember to run this queue runner if you have locally generated mails.

Thanks for the info. So clientmqueue will only get used once a delivery
attempt has been made (and hence long after MailScanner has processed the
message).
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
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