greylisting before rbls

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Aug 21 16:26:20 IST 2005


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Leif Neland wrote:

> Mike McMullen wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Leif Neland" <mailscanner-user at NELAND.DK>
>> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 12:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: greylisting before rbls
>>
>>
>>>> Maybe I spoke too soon on this working. I added the delay_checks
>>>> (actually uncommented it)
>>>> in the sendmail.mc file. I then ran make on it. Saw that sendmail.cf
>>>> was indeed created. I then restarted my MailScanner and saw
>>>> greylisting happening first. However, I am still seeing 553 reject
>>>> messages. If I go back and grep through the maillog on the IP or
>>>> server name
>>>
>>>
>>> Did you restart Sendmail too?
>>>
>>> Leif
>>>
>> restarting Mailscanner service restarts sendmail as well.
>
>
> Must be some special setup then. My setup doesn't restart sendmail 
> when I restart MailScanner.

What OS and distribution are you using? The Linux distributions 
certainly start and stop sendmail as appropriate. They print out that 
when you run them. What output do you get when you restart MailScanner? 
How do you restart MailScanner?

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