Sendmail not moving files to mqueue.in

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Apr 13 19:38:54 IST 2005


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Check to see there aren't any
    sendmail -bd -q15m
processes running. I suspect sendmail/Exim/Postfix are running outside
of MailScanner, processing incoming messages directly avoiding MailScanner.

Carol Gibbons wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> We've been running mailscanner with sendmail on a Mac OS X 10.2.8 server
> for quite awhile. I had to rebuild the server using an image this past
> week. But, now mailscanner won't interact with sendmail. I reset the
> permissions and owner for various directories that sendmail needs root as
> owner. I made sure mqueue.in has same perms as mqueue. But, ever since
> the
> rebuild, sendmail will not place incoming mail into the mqueue.in
> directory. I checked the sendmail.cf  file
> (/System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/sendmail) and the mailscanner
> settings are there to correctly route to mqueue.in. And, mailscanner is
> running and sendmail is running.

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