how to monitor mailscanner is running

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 31 14:02:35 IST 2004


Sounds like your original sendmail process(es) are still running.
If MailScanner stops, no  mail should flow at all. If you are getting mail
out of the computer at all, then you haven't stopped the original sendmail
installation and you urgently need to fix that.

At 12:37 31/03/2004, you wrote:
>A busy server which I administer stop running MailScanner suddenly two
>days ago. The sendmail was still running and receiving email. Only the
>MailScanner  stop running because I found that there is no mailscanner
>header in all email received.  There were no error messages when I
>restarted the MailScanner services. I can still see the Mailscanner
>process is running. But the MailScanner still not function as there
>still no mailscanner header in all new email received. MailScanner can
>only work again until I kill all running sendmail processes and
>restarted the MailScanner again.
>My question is how can I monitor MailScanner is running and doing its
>function.

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