Individual services

[Mariano Absatz]

FWIW a while ago I sent Julian an update to 
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/zmailer.shtml (you can see 
it at http://baby.com.ar/MailScanner/doc/install/zmailer.shtml my guess is 
maybe he'll put it on-line once 4.23 final is released, since some parts of 
the document are for that version).

Whenever those instructions are for ZMailer, I added an init.d script that 
only starts MailScanner, since I personally rather have individual control of 
the services.

That script is at http://baby.com.ar/MailScanner/StartupScripts/MailScanner 

The point is that now you need two init scripts to start and stop sendmail... 
as I'm looking thru it, the current MailScanner init script has become a 
large beast... maybe you could check what options are used for starting 
incoming & outgoing sendmail and create your own /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail-in 
and /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail-out, maybe based on the original script that 
comes with sendmail...

Good luck!

El 28 Aug 2003 a las 17:41, Furnish, Trever G escribió:

> 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
> >


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