RaQ - Frustrated now - HELP please

[Julian Field]

At 09:29 23/10/2002, you wrote:
>Oct 23 09:20:38 localhost sendmail[20875]: g9N8KcK20875:
>from=<gavin at netergy.com>, size=291, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<54VQ1ZTSJEDAJIB7PNBAYW07NJA82V1V.3db65c2b at Gavin>, proto=SMTP,
>daemon=MTA, relay=[]
>Oct 23 01:20:40 localhost MailScanner[20774]: New Batch: Scanning 1
>messages, 658 bytes
>Oct 23 01:20:40 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Oct 23 01:20:40 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Spam Checks: Found 0 spam
>messages
>Oct 23 01:20:40 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Virus Scanning: Starting
>Oct 23 01:20:41 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Virus Scanning: f-prot
>found 0 infections
>Oct 23 01:20:41 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Virus Scanning: Found 0
>viruses
>Oct 23 01:20:41 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Other Checks: Starting
>Oct 23 01:20:41 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Other Checks: Found 0
>problems
>Oct 23 01:20:41 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Content Checks: Starting
>Oct 23 01:20:41 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Content Checks: Found 0
>problems
>Oct 23 01:20:41 localhost MailScanner[20774]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>messages
>Oct 23 09:20:53 localhost in.qpopper[20886]: (v?) POP login by user
>"admin" at ()

I've tweaked the logging today so that most of the "nothing interesting
happened" messages will disappear.

>ok so a look at this tells me that it got a message Mailscanner did
>something with it f-prot scanned it no virus, no other problems and it
>delivered it.  the PROBLEM is where the hell did it put it certainly
>wasn't in the users mailbox and I can't see where else it would go but
>thin air which is a bit frustrating - so near but yet so far, never mind
>the Spamassasain install I want to bolt in as well!

MailScanner puts it in the outgoing sendmail's message queue, and then asks
sendmail to deliver it (which should cause something in your maillog). Make
sure your MailScanner.conf setting
         Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue
is not something like
         Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/mail
as 1 user did a while ago. MailScanner doesn't try to deliver mail.
Sendmail is very good at it, so I don't try to re-invent the wheel.
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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