mailscanner and debian woody 3.0

[Hancock, Scott]

It looks like mailscanner is calling exim using the defer queue.  Look
in mailscanner.conf.  What do you have for Sendmail2=

It should specify a different conf file that actually sends the mail and
does not simply defer them to the hard drive.

When you have defer in the main body of exim.conf exim does not route
any mail even to the local host.  So there should not be a "defer"
specified in /etc/exim/exim_send.conf

Hope that helps,

Scott Hancock



# Set whether to use sendmail or exim
MTA = exim

# Set how to invoke MTA when sending messages MailScanner has created
# (e.g. to sender/recipient saying "found a virus in your message")
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
Sendmail = /usr/sbin/exim

# Sendmail2 is provided for Exim users.
# It is the command used to attempt delivery of outgoing
cleaned/disinfected
# messages.
# This is not usually required for sendmail.
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
#For Exim users: Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim/exim_send.conf
#For sendmail users: Sendmail2 = /usr/lib/sendmail
#Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/exim -C /opt
Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim/exim_send.conf




 >-----Original Message-----
 >From: jack mendez [mailto:wiler1 at EARTHLINK.NET]
 >Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:28 PM
 >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
 >Subject: Re: mailscanner and debian woody 3.0
 >
 >i have checked my inbox for new messages and they do not appear.
 >the exim mainlog notes that it is receiving the mail, but then does
 >nothing
 >with it. here are the log entries
 >2003-08-18 09:53:01 Start queue run: pid=19048
 >2003-08-18 09:53:01 19oLPY-00031T-00 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 09:53:01 19oKW1-0002WT-00 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 09:53:01 19oKW2-0002WT-00 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 09:53:01 19oLPY-00031T-01 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 09:53:01 19oME7-0003OJ-00 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 09:53:01 19oi6H-0003zH-00 == wiler at yahoo.com R=defer_router
 >defer (-1): remote host address is the local host
 >2003-08-18 09:53:01 19oinp-0004HD-00 == root at debian D=defer_director
defer
 >(-1): forced defer: All deliveries are deferred
 >2003-08-18 09:53:01 End queue run: pid=19048
 >2003-08-18 10:08:01 Start queue run: pid=19419
 >2003-08-18 10:08:01 19oinp-0004HD-00 == root at debian D=defer_director
defer
 >(-1): forced defer: All deliveries are deferred
 >2003-08-18 10:08:01 19oi6H-0003zH-00 == jmendez at vips4kids.org routing
 >defer
 >(-42): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 10:08:01 19oME7-0003OJ-00 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 10:08:01 19oLPY-00031T-01 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 10:08:01 19oLPY-00031T-00 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 10:08:01 19oKW1-0002WT-00 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 10:08:01 19oKW2-0002WT-00 == wiler at localhost directing
defer
 >(-41): retry time not reached
 >2003-08-18 10:08:01 End queue run: pid=19419
 >unless i am missinterpreting these log entires i think it is saying
that
 >it
 >can not find the wiler account of the local machine? it does exist, i
log
 >into it all the time
 >thanks
 >
 >
 >At 10:22 AM 8/18/03 -0400, you wrote:
 >>Check your exim logs to see what happened with the email
 >>(/var/log/exim/mainlog).  Mail should not be sitting in the
exim_outgoing
 >>queue unless there was a problem delivering the email.  Since you're
 >using
 >>fetchmail, I assume that exim would be doing local delivery.  Have
you
 >>checked your inbox for new mail?
 >>
 >>Jason
 >>
 >>> okay so i was able to solve my problems with the compilation
 >>> with a bit of
 >>> adjustment to my path.
 >>> mailscanner appears to be running
 >>> gave me a process id, etc.
 >>> now, here are my questions.
 >>> 1. i have configured exim per the instructions in the mailscanner
exim
 >>> documentation
 >>> 2. using fetchmail i retreve mail from a remote pop server,
 >>> and then wait
 >>> for it to be delivered.
 >>> exim appears to be delivering it to the proper queue
 >>> as there is mail in the /var/spool/exim_incoming directory
 >>> i have MailScanner set to check the incoming directory every
 >>> 2 seconds.
 >>> i have an aditional directory specified for outgoing messages in
the
 >>> exim_outgoing.conf file.
 >>> /var/spool/exim_outgoing
 >>> there is nothing in this directory, and MailScanner appears
 >>> to be doing
 >>> nothing, any ideas?
 >>> thanks for the help so far
 >>