/var/spool/mqueue not flushing

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 20 18:54:15 GMT 2003


At 18:27 20/03/2003, you wrote:
>For some reason, Sendmail isn't being invoked to flush messages in
>/var/spool/mqueue after scanning.  The path for it is correct in
>MailScanner.conf and it reads like MailScanner is responsible for
>triggering Sendmail to flush this queue.

The setting for this is "Sendmail2". Is that correct?



># Set whether to use sendmail or exim
>MTA = sendmail
>
># Set how to invoke MTA when sending messages MailScanner has created
># (e.g. to sender/recipient saying "found a virus in your message")
># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
>Sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
>
>I've also changed the QUEUETIME in /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner to 1m,
>but that isn't helping either.
>
>So far, I've set up a cronjob to handle it, but I can't see this as the
>normal course of action.  What am I missing?  I use MailScanner-4.13-3
>and Sendmail 8.12.8.
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Kip Turk, RHCE                                       spamdies at wcc.net
>Systems Administrator/Killer of Spam/Writer of Code/Penguin Proponent
>West Central Net - tel: 915.234.5678 / 800.695.9016 fax: 915.656.0071
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