Clarification...

[Julian Field]

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You have a exim -q15m running to regularly attempt to deliver the
messages in the outgoing queue. If you just drop messages into the
queue, they will be delivered within 15 minutes. But this is way too
slow, you don't want to wait 15 minutes while a message sits in a queue.

So there is another setting that tells it how to attempt delivery of a
message from the queue. This is called immediately after the message is
dropped into the outgoing queue, so that the message is most likely to
be delivered immediately.

If you set this wrong, the immediate delivery attempt won't be made, but
it will still be delivered eventually (by the exim -q15m).

Richard Thomas wrote:

> I am still digging into my problem but I seek some clarification about
> how MailScanner actually works...
>
> In MailScanner, you define have to specify the input and output
> directories. MailScanner picks up an email from the incoming, does its
> stuff and then drops it in the outgoing queue. My puzzlement is about
> what heppens next:
>
> The page about the exim set up says you need to have exim running to
> process the queue (exim -q15m kind-of stuff). However, it also says you
> need to specify the Sendmail2 configuration option to make the delivery
> attempt. But I don't understand why you need both. Surely the q15m takes
> care of things?
>
> What further perplexes me is that in our configuration file, Sendmail2
> is specifies as "usr/bin/exim" which doesn't exist. Mail is still
> getting delivered just fine though (presumably by the exim that is
> running in the background). So what is going on? Did Mailscanner see
> that /usr/bin/exim didn't exist and use the value specified for
> Sendmail? Or could this line be the rason we are having problems
> (mailscanner attempting to use /usr/bin/exim and erroring out and then
> funky stuff happening)?

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