mail generated locally doesn't get scanned

Gary Morgan gary.morgan at ASYNCHRONY.COM
Tue Jan 28 21:11:26 GMT 2003


I'm running sendmail version 8.11.6-15, do you consider this fairly old?

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 15:00, Julian Field wrote:
> I assume you are running a fairly old version of sendmail. Upgrade to a
> recent version and it will pump all locally-generated mail through
> MailScanner as well.
>
> The alternative is to configure your webmail system to talk SMTP to
> localhost rather than invoking sendmail directly.
>
> At 20:47 28/01/2003, you wrote:
> >I'm sure somebody has run into this before....
> >
> >I've been running Mailscanner 1.11-1 for a few weeks now, and haven't
> >had any problems yet.  However, management wants me to implement an easy
> >way for users to change their email passwords, turn on vacation and
> >email forwarding as well as webmail.  Easy 'nuff...Usermin supplies all
> >those things.  That's when I noticed that email generated on the email
> >server, either by using Usermin's "Read Mail" interface or even by using
> >the "mail" command from the prompt, does not get scanned.
> >
> >What do I need to do so that the messages created via webmail (running
> >no the mailserver) get scanned?
> >
> >
> >TIA,
> >
> >Gary Morgan
>
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> Julian Field
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