questions using sendmail

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Thierry
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 2:44 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: questions using sendmail
>
> hello,
> I am a little bit confused with sendmail/Mailscanner ...
> i just install sendmail this afternoon, i test it, everything is runnig
> find.
> I install it on my laptop, i can send ans receive mail ...
> I am using mutt, procmail and fetchmail.
> I read some documentations about exim and postfix, and about the exim one,
> i read something very interesting, that mailscanner was moving (scanning)
> from /var/spool/incoming queue to /var/spool/mqueue.in queue all mails
> received.
> How can i do the same thing with sendmail ??
> I put the right path in my MailScanner.conf:
>
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue.in
> Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue
> Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/incoming

[SKS]

Is mail being accepted by your system from other systems?

Can you telnet to port 25 from another system?

I also note that the incoming work directory should match your setting in
MailScanner.conf Typically this is

Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

The directory must exist and have the right permissions, typically for
sendmail on linux:

# ls -dl /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root           40 Feb  1 15:34
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

> Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/quarantine
>
> But my mqueue.in still empty ... something to do with sendmai/fetchmail ?
>
> Thx
>
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