Testing MailScanner

[G. Armour Van Horn]

So what processes are running? On my long-established RedHat 7.2
machine, here's what I get:

[root at verbose root]# ps auxw | grep sendmail
smmsp    28733  0.0  0.0  5188  324 ?        S    Aug16   0:00 sendmail:
Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root     28734  0.0  0.0  5284  324 ?        S    Aug16   0:00 sendmail:
Queue runner at 00:05:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
root     28737  0.0  0.1  5376  608 ?        S    Aug16   3:05 sendmail:
accepting connections
root     11042  0.0  0.1  3572  536 pts/0    S    08:57   0:00 grep
sendmail

You'll see exactly three actual sendmail processes. One is the standard
Queue runner for /var/spool/mqueue, which MailScanner has always
handled. One is the optional Queue runner for /var/spool/clientmqueue.
I'm not entirely sure when this is needed, but Julian told me how to
manually start it some months back, and now it's included in MailScanner
by default. One is the process to accept incoming mail.

I can't tell you how to get the same results in RedHat 9, because ps
doesn't seem to work the same way. There I just get this:

[root at vanquish MailScanner]# ps auxw | grep sendmail
root      3637  0.0  0.4  5924 1188 ?        S    Aug26   0:00
[sendmail]
smmsp     3642  0.0  0.3  5712  968 ?        S    Aug26   0:00
[sendmail]
root      3648  0.0  0.3  5808  972 ?        S    Aug26   0:00
[sendmail]
root      6697  0.0  0.0  1476  236 pts/0    R    09:05   0:00 grep
sendmail

I suspect that I have the same three sendmail processes running, but I
can't tell for sure. I note that in both cases, two are owned by root
and one my smmsp.

MailScanner 4 has been *much* less problem for me than 3 was. In your
shoes, I might unplug the server, delete every trace of MailScanner I
could find and install the latest stable version, but I sure wouldn't go
back to anything older than that.

Van


Vernon Webb wrote:

>
>
> > I wouldn't advise anyone to install 3, I don't support it any more.
> > Thousands and thousands of people have installed 4 quickly and
> successfully.
>
> That all nice and well, but it's not working for me. Glad to know it
> works for some one else.
>
> I have tried installing and reinstalling and no success. I can get the
> incoming scanned but the out going is not working. When I start
> MailScanner it will not start Sendmail, I actually have to start
> Sendmail manually so that out going mail will go out and those are not
> being proceeded by MailScanner at all. I have attempted to install the
> source but couldn't seem to figure it out.

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