adding additional sendmail process?

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Terry Hope [mailto:thope at BTHSOLUTIONS.COM] 
> Envoyé : 12 avril, 2004 15:13
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : adding additional sendmail process?
> 
> 
> Is there a way to have the init script start a third sendmail 
> process that
> uses a different config file? My ISP at home (cox.net) is 
> blocking port 25
> so I can't relay through my corporate server (on it's own 
> corporate subnet
> without these blocked ports) with MailScanner running . I can 
> utilize the
> ISPs mail relay, but they have additional limitations on size 
> and content
> that I wish to avoid. From my research - it looks like the only way to
> resolve this is to have a sendmail process listening on a 
> different port
> (2025 maybe). I know that MailScanner is succesfully starting a listen
> process and a send process. I would like to configure it to start an
> additional listen only process listening on a different port 
> number. How
> would I change the MailScanner initialization script to start (and
> stop/restart) a third sendmail process?

I think you have your answer in the part of this function in /etc/init.d/MailScanner (if linux):

# Start both the sendmail processes
StartInSendmail() {

You just need to find the options to set a different listening port and add one sendmail process that listens.

> 
> Thanx
> Terry Hope
> thope at bthsolutions.com
>