Figured it out [was Outgoing Mail Queue]

[Alex Neuman]

I've used Red Hat for all my installations, from Red Hat 7.1 to Fedora 2.
MailScanner works like a charm. Without exceptions.

One thing I've always recommended, regardless of OS (Windows, Linux, even
Novell) is to reinstall everything from scratch. Don't take me wrong... I
respect all of those people out there who design, develop and code
routines that allow you to upgrade, say, Red Hat 8.0 to Fedora Core 1.
It's just that they don't know *what* I've done to that machine after the
stock install - and they shouldn't have to.

The key to getting it to work properly the first time is to understand
that Julian has *no way* of knowing what's inside your machine, or what
particular name you've used for your mail queues. As long as you don't
stray from the standard, it should work "out of the box" almost 100% of
the time.

The other key is to read... read... read... Everywhere. This list, Google,
other lists (for all the plugins and AV engines), maq's, faq's, docs, etc.
You'll probably find clues to help yourself there.

In any case, I'm sure migrating to or away from Red Hat is not going to
solve any problems - in fact, since you're used to certain things being in
certain places, it might be a little awkward at first. Ever try using
Solaris after a few months of not using it? Sorta the same. Like a bike,
you never really forget, but there's always a few seconds of awkwardness.

>>I run both Fedora CORE1 and CORE2, and i dont experience this. The
>>clientmqueue is ONLY for locally generated mail, not for mail
>>processed by mailscanner. this is no Fedora issue, its a sendmail
>>version issue. It is ment to be that mail is going to mqueue.in, since
>>you also want to scan locally generated mails.
>>
>>
> that may be.  Nothing worked until I made those changes.  local mail
> never got delivered.  It just ended up in mail.in again after
> mailscanner processed.  sendmail's natural behavior is to deliver
> incoming mail rather than queueonly.  mailscanner changes that
> behavior.  sm-client does not handle local delivery.  this machine
> started out as RedHat 8.0 and has been upgraded twice.  Its a bandaid
> since I'm moving away from redhat products for precisely the reasons
> that its taken me 2 days to get mailscanner to run on what should be a
> fairly brainless install.  I'm just trying to keep it together while I
> test a new mail system (the one that's handling this email.)
>
> I have yet to get the new system configured with mailscanner.  It runs
> postfix for the mta which hands off delivery to dbmail.  I need to
> figure out how to get mailscanner to process the mail before the handoff
> to the lmtp (dbmail).  I'm not there  yet.
>
> Curtis
>
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