Individual services

[Alan Fiebig]

I'm using the standard sendmail MTA with my MailScanner system.

This afternoon, I had a bit of a backup in MS churning through messages. So, just as an exercise, I wanted to see the effects of stopping the incoming sendmail while leaving MS and the outgoing sendmail running.

I took a quick look at the init.d MailScanner script, and was rather puzzled to see the script had a 'startin' and 'startout' command built into it to respectivly start each MTA by itself. But there was no 'stopin' or 'stopout', nor was there a 'start' or 'stop' for just MailScanner.

I was just curious about this arrangement. Not sure what use it would be to say, start the in and out MTA but not the scanner, or start just one MTA by itself. I could see the use of being able to stop an individual MTA, like I was planning on doing with the in bound MTA.

Any insight?

-Alan