mail generated locally doesn't get scanned

[Julian Field]

At 21:11 28/01/2003, you wrote:
>I'm running sendmail version 8.11.6-15, do you consider this fairly old?

No. Your locally-generated mail should go via clientmqueue into mqueue.in.
Worth checking that is what is  actually happening.
Otherwise go for the smtp to localhost route. Any webmail worth using will
be able to talk smtp to a mail server.


>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
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
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>
>
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