/var/spool/mqueue not flushing

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 20 19:35:24 GMT 2003


In that case, do you have "Delivery Method = batch" ?
It's very hard to diagnose problems of this sort remotely (without access),
there are all sorts of things that could be wrong, causing problems like
this :(

At 19:14 20/03/2003, you wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Julian Field wrote:
> > 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?
>
>It also points to the sendmail binary.
>
># Sendmail2 is provided for Exim users.
># It is the command used to attempt delivery of outgoing cleaned/disinfected
># messages.
># This is not usually required for sendmail.
># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
>#For Exim users: Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim/exim_send.conf
>#For sendmail users: Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/sendmail
>Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/sendmail
>#Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/sendmail -C /etc/exim/exim_send.conf
>
>
>[root at ns2 /etc/MailScanner]# which sendmail
>/usr/sbin/sendmail
>[root at ns2 /etc/MailScanner]# ls -alh $(which sendmail)
>-r-xr-sr-x    1 root     smmsp        556k Mar  4 11:46 /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
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