problems with blank emails

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,

I've been running with sendmail and MailScanner on Solaris 9 for
a long time, and I've never defined the Lock type in MS.  I've
never seen this problem.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:00:18 +0100
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: problems with blank emails
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> Ah!
> Turns out on our Solaris boxes that with sendmail 8.12.10 I found
>     Lock Type = posix
> to be rather more reliable. I think that is a quirk of sendmail on
> Solaris.
>
> On 25 Aug 2005, at 14:46, Julian Field wrote:
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>> Check your "Lock Type" is correct. I cannot quite remember the
>> sendmail version number (just checked, it's 8.13.1) when they changed
>> their locking code. I think it is mentioned in MailScanner.conf.
>> MailScanner 4.36 is pretty old now, you should consider an upgrade.
>>
>> And I would add ClamAV while you're at it, it's in my Clam+SA easy-
>> install package.
>>
>> On 25 Aug 2005, at 14:22, Sr. Ian wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It seems that I am have sporadic problems with emails
>>> arriving in users inbox's with nothing in the body of the email.
>>> This also
>>> happens with out going as well.
>>>
>>> Running
>>> Sendmail 8.12.11
>>> MailScanner 4.36.4 (was this a problem with this version?)
>>> Anti Virus Mcafee
>>> Unix solaris 9
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