Running Mailscanner AFTER sendmail?

[Jim Dickenson]

I think that the email is being reject by sendmail and that is what is
logging to the mail log file. I have several hundred unknown user emails a
day logged. If they got bounced, instead of being rejected, I would think I
would have several hundred bounce messages because a large percentage of the
return email addresses would be bogus and thus the bounces would bounce and
I am not seeing that.

My mail server is running Red Hat Linux 9.0, sendmail 8.12.8, spamassassin
2.63, and mailscanner 4.31.6.
--
Jim Dickenson


> From: hermit921 <hermit921 at YAHOO.COM>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:58:54 -0700
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Subject: Re: Running Mailscanner AFTER sendmail?
>
> MailScanner doesn't know about the accounts, just the MTA - in this case,
> postfix.
>
> hermit921
>
> At 03:41 PM 6/9/2004, Spam Account wrote:
>> In this case, Mailscanner and sendmail run on the same system.
>>
>> How did you get Mailscanner to read and recognize your account list?
>>
>> Cya.
>> Scott.
>>
>>>
>>> We decided to keep an account list on each MailScanner system = choice
>>> B.  Each account change on our sendmail server gets rsync'd to the
>>> MailScanner boxes as part of updating the local aliases file.
>>>
>>> This works fine, but it is an extra step.  We hope to eliminate this by
>>> having the MailSCanner MTAs check with our main server for a valid ID
>>> before accepting the mail, but not yet.
>>>
>>> hermit921
>
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