mailscanner shutdown

[Ulysees]

> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 1:21 pm, Ulysees wrote:
>
> > is there any cleaner way of causing mailscanner to shutdown ?
>
> Cleaner than what?
/etc/init.d/Mailscanner stop

> > maybe it's more of a sendmail flaw but leaving around half finished xf
and
> > df files in the the queues causes me a fair bit of annoyance.
>
> Which queues?
/var/spool/mqueue.in and /var/spool/mqueue

> MailScanner should not take very long to shut down, and when it does so,
it
> tidies up after itself (this is one reason why it takes a few seconds to
shut
> down).
then why does it leave df and xf files behind ?

> > they way i figure it should it not be possible on shutdown to refuse new
> > connections
>
> Are you talking about shutting down MailScanner or your MTA?   MailScanner
> does not accept connections at all, so if you're shutting down MS, this is
> not an issue.
When Mailscanner shuts down it calls the MTAs to shut down