Connecting mailscanner to sendmail

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Nov 20 19:08:49 GMT 2002


At 18:56 20/11/2002, you wrote:
>Do we have MailScanner init.d script?? Sorry for being ignorant

Yes. Take a look in /etc/rc.d/init.d


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:54 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Connecting mailscanner to sendmail
>
>
>Sounds like you have the normal sendmail process running as well as
>MailScanner. You should have
>1) 2 sendmail processes, both of which are started by the MailScanner
>init.d script. Neither one is started by the sendmail init.d script (and
>this script should be disabled).
>2) 1 or more MailScanner processes (you will get 6 by default) started by
>the MailScanner init.d script.
>
>At 21:58 19/11/2002, you wrote:
> >I am running MailScanner 4.05-3 with sendmail 8.12.6 on a Debian system
> >and am having trouble getting sendmail to leave the message in the queue
> >for MailScanner to see and process.
> >
> >If I stop sendmail and drop some q/df files into the queue MailScanenr
> >immediately grabs them and processes them and sends them on
> >appropriately.  If sendmail is running and receives a message it
> >immediately processes it and sends it along with giving MailScanner a
> >chance to look at it.
> >
> >Everything else works great, but how do I get sendmail to put it in the
> >queue and leave it there long enough for MailScanner to see it?
> >
> >I have tried commenting out the ControlSocketName=... in the sendmail.cf
> >file, but still no luck.  Any suggestions?
> >--
> >Daniel R. Bidwell       |       bidwell at andrews.edu
> >Andrews University      Computer Science & Information Systems Department
> >If two always agree, one of them is unnecessary
> >"Friends don't let friends do DOS"
> >"In theory, theory and practice are the same.
> >In practice, however, they are not."
>
>--
>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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