Serious problems running Mailscanner

[Alex Pimperton]

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Richard Thomas wrote:

> Alex Pimperton wrote:
>
>>
>> This isn's a solution, but I had the same problem a while ago with Exim
>> on Debian Sarge.
>>
>> I tried just about everything suggested by the list, and still couldnt
>> get it working so I removed Exim and installed Postfix and then
>> installed MailScanner and that fixed the problem.
>>
>> I don't want to start a MTA flame war but I have had several problems
>> with exim that I havn't had postfix, including the one above.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
> Oops, just sent an email to the list regarding what you wrote about this
> problem.
>
> I don't really see how it can be an exim issue but I guess you never
> know. Changing MTA isn't really an option at this stage. It sounds like
> reinstalling MailScanner might be on the cards.
>
> One thing I have noticed is that there is a bunch of crap hanging out in
> the various spool directories. I have no idea why this could be causing
> an issue but I plan to bring exim down at the end of the day and do some
> serious spring cleaning.
>
> IMO, MailScanner does not have enough debugging built in.
>
> Rich
>
> --

The original problem never did get fixed.

 I sent a few emails to the list and tried all the suggestions,
including reinstalling everything including the whole box till I was
blue in the face and still nothing.

The box is a virtual pc, running under UML and sat on a dual xeon host
machine (I use bytemark hosting)

I didn't understand it either, but at that point I was past caring as
long as it stopped losing mail!

I'm glad you managed to fix it, if only I'd tried that at the start...

Alex

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