quarantine as raw mail queue file

Noway mailscanner at AVERYHILLS.COM
Fri Sep 26 17:11:24 IST 2003


Thanks a lot!!!!  I failed to copy the qf* file, so it works now.

Thanks for the help.

> Sendmail's queue files occur in pairs - one is called qf followed by a
bunch
> of letters & numbers, the other is called df followed by the same letters
&
> numbers.
>
> You should be able to copy the two qf/df files into your outgoing queue
> directory and they will then get delivered the next time the queue runner
> gets processed.
>
> If this does not appear to happening for you:
>
> 1. Are you copying both the qf and df files (with matching remainders of
the
> names)?
>
> 2. Are you sure you're copying them to the correct directory - the one
your
> outgoing sendmail process is delivering mail from (this is the directory
> MailScanner puts mail into once it's finished processing it)?
>
> 3. How often is your delivery sendmail process checking the queue (this is
> the -q parameter on the sendmail command line; a common one is -q15m
meaning
> process the queue every 15 minutes)?
>
> 4. Are you waiting that amount of time for the mail to be discovered and
> processed?
>
> Hope these suggestions point you in a helpful direction,
>
> Regards,
>
> Antony.
>
> --
>
> If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it,
> we'd be so simple that we couldn't.



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