emails with No Message Collected

kfliong kfliong at WOFS.COM
Wed Jul 16 08:43:33 IST 2003


I have check and both sendmail and MS is using flock.

I see this in MS.conf file - Lock Type = flock

So, both is flock type.

Here is a short list of what i get when it tail maillog.

MTP, daemon=MTA, relay=215.Red-80-36-94.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.36.94.215]
Jul 16 15:38:00 ensim sendmail[12706]: h6GJbnV12706: to=<adverts at wofs.com>,
delay=00:00:07, mailer=virthostmail, pri=32201, stat=queued
Jul 16 15:38:01 ensim MailScanner[12047]: New Batch: Found 2 messages waiting
Jul 16 15:38:01 ensim MailScanner[12047]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
2762 bytes
Jul 16 15:38:01 ensim MailScanner[12098]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam messages
Jul 16 15:38:01 ensim sendmail[12765]: h6GJc1l12765: from=<>, size=999,
class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200307161938.h6GJc1l12765 at ensim.wofsproperties.com>,
relay=root at localhost
Jul 16 15:38:01 ensim MailScanner[12098]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Jul 16 15:38:03 ensim sendmail[12768]: h6GJc1l12765:
to=mariawantsu at compuserve.com, delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02,
mailer=esmtp, pri=30999, relay=mx2.compuserve.com. [149.174.40.8],
dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (h6G7hpAR016440 Message accepted for delivery)
Jul 16 15:38:05 ensim MailScanner[12047]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam messages
Jul 16 15:38:05 ensim sendmail[12775]: h6GJc5912775: from=<>, size=937,
class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200307161938.h6GJc5912775 at ensim.wofsproperties.com>,
relay=root at localhost
Jul 16 15:38:05 ensim MailScanner[12047]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Jul 16 15:38:06 ensim sendmail[12778]: h6GJc5912775:
to=mariawantsu at yahoo.com, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp,
pri=30937, relay=mx2.mail.yahoo.com. [64.156.215.5], dsn=5.0.0,
stat=Service unavailable
Jul 16 15:38:06 ensim sendmail[12778]: h6GJc5912775: h6GJc6812778:
postmaster notify: Service unavailable
Jul 16 15:38:06 ensim sendmail[12778]: h6GJc6812778: to=root,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=31037, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Jul 16 15:38:23 ensim sendmail[12815]: h6GJcNh12815: from=apache, size=832,
class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200307161938.h6GJcNh12815 at ensim.wofsproperties.com>,
relay=apache at localhost
Jul 16 15:38:25 ensim sendmail[12818]: h6GJcNh12815: to=izancj at hotmail.com,
ctladdr=apache (48/48), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp,
pri=30832, relay=mx4.hotmail.com. [65.54.254.151], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (
<200307161938.h6GJcNh12815 at ensim.wofsproperties.com> Queued mail for delivery)

Well, I am not sure if this is correct, but how come some mails are being
handled by MailScanne and some by sendmail?

Thanks in advance.

At 07:43 AM 7/16/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 03:23, kfliong wrote:
>
>I have checked and my "noetrn" command is in the init script. So, what
>else
>could be the reason?
>
>Maybe a locking problem?  Check that sendmail and MS are using the same
>lock type (and that none of your mail spools are on NFS shares).  You
>can find sendmails lock type as described below (from sendmails site)...
>
>
>"You can determine which locking system is used by sendmail from the
>output of:
>
>         sendmail -bt -d0.10 < /dev/null | grep HASFLOCK
>
>If HASFLOCK is in the output, your system is using flock() for locking.
>Otherwise, it is using fcntl() for locking.  "
>
>fcntl() is called 'posix' in MS, check that 'Lock Type' in MS.conf is
>set to the correct type (or commented out if sendmail is using flock()).
>
>Failing that - have you checked for anything unusual in the maillog?
>
>
>
>
>
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