Testing MailScanner

Vernon Webb vernon at COMP-WIZ.COM
Tue Aug 26 01:57:40 IST 2003


Well it looks like my only solution is to uninstall 4 and reinstall 3. :(

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From: Antony Stone <Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK> 
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Sent: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:44:06 +0100 
Subject: Re: Testing MailScanner 

> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 1:22 am, Vernon Webb wrote: 
> 
> > Are you talking about this file? 
> 
> I'm not talking about a single file - I'm talking about all of your startup 
> scripts.   I don't know exactly what those are likely to be because I'm not a 
> RedHat person, so I don't have the same startup mechanism as you do. 
> 
> You need to check all your startup scripts to find out how many sendmail 
> processes are getting started and with what command line parameters (grep 
> wouldn't be a bad start for doing this). 
> 
> You should have two, and only two, sendmail processes: 
> 
> - one which accepts inbound mail and simply queues it for MailScanner to 
> find (option DeliveryMode=queueonly) 
> 
> - one which finds mail processed by MailScanner and delivers it (using a -q 
> option to specify the queue checking interval) 
> 
> I suspect from the problems you have reported that either: 
> 
> one of these processes is doing morethan it should, or: 
> 
> there's another sendmail process which is accepting incoming mail and 
> delivering it, without queuing it forMailScanner to process. 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Antony. 
> 
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