Testing MailScanner

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:41 am, Vernon Webb wrote:

> OK, now I seem to have figured something out here. No idea how to fix it,
> but here goes.
>
> If I stop Sendmail and start MailScanner all incoming messages are scanned.
> On the other hand, if I do that, no messages seem to go out until I start
> Sendmail again. Now what?

Now check how many sendmail instances are getting started, with what 
command-line options, and ensure that there is:

 - exactly one sendmail process accepting incoming SMTP connections and 
queueing to the directory where MailScanner looks for email to scan (ie this 
sendmail does not try to deliver email), and

 - exactly one sendmail process (called a "queue runner" in current 
sendmail-speak) which checks the outbound MailScanner queue and delivers 
email, locally or remotely.

Check your startup scripts for all occurrences of sendmail, and make sure 
there are two, and only two, doing the jobs listed above..

I believe you will find that somewhere, an instance of sendmail is being 
started which is listening for incoming mail, and then delivering it, instead 
of processing it through MailScanner along the way.

Regards,

Antony.

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>
> Vern

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