Newbie Questions on v4.03-1

[Julian Field]

At 11:40 29/10/2002, you wrote:
>I installed ver4.03-1 + rav with sendmail on sunday, it went smoothly.
>Standard configuration in MailScanner.conf is used. I did a couple of i
>tests and found:
>
>         1. It scans incoming mails if they are originated from external
>                 (from other hosts - i.e. via "smtp").
>
>         2. No scan was done for incoming mails originated from itself
>                 (i.e. if mails from userA to userB or root all from
>                  the same host!)
>
>Questions:
>         1. Is observation in 2 normal (i.e. as per designed) ?
>                 If no, what have I missed out ?

Yes, but...


>         2. If 2 is normal, how do I set it to scan the mails for
>                 case 2 ?

if you use a recent version of sendmail, then everything will be scanned.
By recent I probably mean 8.11 or 8.12. Earlier versions deliver mail that
was created by invoking /usr/sbin/sendmail without it ever actually hitting
a queue. The recent versions behave in a better way, so the message always
gets put into the incoming queue.

The other alternative is to stop your mail client software from ever
invoking sendmail directly. Most email apps (or web mail apps, etc) can be
configured to send mail via a remote SMTP server. Do that, and set the
server name to "localhost" and you'll be away.
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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
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