Individual services

[Furnish, Trever G]

Funny - I wondered exactly the same thing this morning.  Not that anything
useful came of it, I'm just being empathetic. :-)

It would be useful when you're testing changes to one specific piece and
don't want the other pieces to take effect, such as when you want to test
spam detection without actually delivering email or test sendmail queue
group message splitting without having to watch the inbound queue *really
closely*. :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Fiebig [mailto:mailscanner at ELKNET.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:24 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Individual services
>
>
> 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
>