Connecting mailscanner to sendmail

[Remco Barendse]

yes, sorry bout that

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> Err...
> Do you mean
> "Max Children" ?
>
> At 10:36 22/11/2002, you wrote:
> >Just a thought, would it be an idea to make the number of processes that
> >will be started a MailScanner.conf option?
> >Was thinking of something like
> >Mail volume for this server = lo/med/high
> >
> >Would save some mem on low mem boxes and would have no negative result on
> >mail processing speed if the number of processes is reduced but it is a
> >low volume box.
> >
> >Maybe even make it a number to control how many processes will be running?
> >
> >On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Julian Field wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> 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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