qmail + openbsd

[Clive Eisen]

Chris Campbell wrote:

> I see that MS now works with qmail… does anyone have it running on 
> qmail + obsd? I’ve had it running here at my job for over 2 years with 
> sendmail + rh linux…. But I’d like to install it at home on obsd+qmail….
>
> Thanks.
>
> **Christopher S. Campbell** | UNIX Admin | First Albany Capital
>
MS does work with qmail - however see below a question I posed on the 
qmail list - no reply yet

Subject: qmail and mailscanner

I'm starting to experiment with the above combination.

Mailscanner works by moving messages from an 'in' queue to an 'out' 
queue and performing its functions on the way.

In order to use qmail with mailscanner you need two queues.

I have set up two qmail instances, in /var/qmail/qmail_in and 
/var/qmail/qmail_out

smtpd is running on qmail_in, but nothing else
all the other qmail processes are running on qmail_out

Mailscanner picks the mail up from qmail_in, process it and dumps it in 
the qmail_out queues and kicks the fifo and the message gets delivered.

So far so good.

Now - as usual the message number in qmail_in/queue/mess/? is its own 
inode number.

but

when mailscanner deposits a message in qmail_out it does not follow this 
principle.
It put the appropriate message file in a queue but its number is not its 
inode number.
It adds the todo and the link to intd
It all works
But - what might break?

BTW this is the same if you use the 'openprotect' installation.

TIA
-- 
Clive