emails not scanned?

[Julian Field]

At 14:52 07/05/2004, you wrote:
> > Hardly fair to expect MailScanner to bhave as designed regardless of
>the
> > errors in the config - i guess you can only code for known
> > configurations, not unknown ?
>
>I'm well aware of the fact that Mailscanner was not at fault however I'm
>trying to understand why these emails did not remain queued and why
>there were no mailscanner headers if mailscanner deals with moving
>emails from the incoming to the outgoing queue?  My expectation would
>have been that either mailscanner should have died because of a problem
>with the config or it should have put headers in saying that it failed
>to scan.  The fact that there are no headers is confusing.

In that case, are you 100% sure you don't still have a sendmail process
delivering from the first queue? MailScanner always adds some headers. No
headers is a sure sign of it not going through MailScanner at all.
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Julian Field
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