mail not delivered sendmail debian

David Cake dave at DIFFERENCE.COM.AU
Thu Aug 26 21:22:43 IST 2004


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        Just recently I upgraded my sendmail, MailScanner,
spamassassin debian unstable server, and it stopped working.
        I am running MailScanner as user/group smmsp/smmsp, and had
the standard sendmail two queues, /var/spool/mqueue and
/var/spool/mqueue.in setup.
        After much badgering with permissions, etc it still doesn't
work. It appears to be completely working right up until the moment
it should move mail from one queue to the other, but I receive no
error message and mail is never delivered.
        Everything appears to be working, no error message anymore
from sendmail (well, it does complain that my permissions are too
liberal, but it works fine).
        And when I run Mailscanner in daemon mode, all there is in
the logs in the relatively benign
Aug 27 04:14:28 hostname MailScanner[6016]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.32.5 starting...
Aug 27 04:14:34 hostname MailScanner[6016]: Using locktype = flock
        When I run it in debug mode, I get a lot of cheerful messages
about the operation of spamassasin and razor, no error messages.
        The problem appears to be that, although mqueue.in is
definitely writable, messages are written to it as
-rw-r-----  1 root smmsp
        which presumably means that although MailScanner can read
them and classify them as spam or ham or virus, it can't actually
move them out of the directory. Any ideas how to configure sendmail
correctly to work with MailScanner, or MailScanner to work with
sendmail?
        Regards
                David

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