Individual services

[Julian Field]

Sorry, forgot to put it on the website. It should be there now.

At 14:02 29/08/2003, you wrote:
>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
> > >
>
>
>--
>Mariano Absatz
>El Baby
>----------------------------------------------------------
>"If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot
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