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Mike Patchen wrote:

>Yes, I am running Linux - RedHat 8.  Guess I am a bit confused on not
>having sendmail running, do I not need this to accept incoming mail
>and place it in MailScanner's queue?
>
The MailScanner startup script will also start the sendmail processes it 
needs in the correct way. You don't want to start up sendmail 
independently as well, that will bypass MailScanner.

>  I have my sendmail setup as per
>the instructions on the web site, it saves incoming messages to
>mailq.in, MailScanner processes them and places them back into mailq. 
>A separate sendmail process then handles final delivery of the
>message.  This appears to be working perfectly fine.
>  
>
I hope you mean mqueue and not mailq....

>Mike
>
>On 10/11/05, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>  
>
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>>Are you running Linux?
>>Please check you have *not* got the sendmail service running, and not
>>starting on reboot. Do this lot:
>>service MailScanner stop
>>service sendmail stop
>>Check you have no sendmail processes running at all
>>Check you have no MailScanner processes running at all
>>chkconfig sendmail off
>>chkconfig --level 2345 MailScanner on
>>service MailScanner start
>>
>>and see if that helps at all.
>>
>>Also, make sure you haven't got any webmin/cpanel/whatever software
>>running that may be trying to restart sendmail.
>>
>>Mike Patchen wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I am having a slight problem with Mailscanner in that occasionally
>>>messages do not get scanned at all.  Running Mailscanner version
>>>4.44.6, sendmail 8.12.8 (I know, I need to update that).  Problem only
>>>occurs a couple of time a day out of about 4,000 emails/day.  Of
>>>course, all the ones that I catch are spam/virus that should have been
>>>caught in Mailscanner, but were completely missed.  On all of these
>>>messages, there is no header information to suggest that it was even
>>>scanned, and the logs show no scanning to have occurred.
>>>
>>>Oct 11 11:37:02 mail sendmail[20448]: j9BGb2KV020448:
>>>from=<{sender at domain.org}>, size=2102, class=0, nrcpts=3,
>>>msgid=<46951E64.855A1E7@{domain.org}>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
>>>relay={relay} [{x.x.x.x}]
>>>Oct 11 11:37:02 mail sendmail[20448]: j9BGb2KV020448:
>>>to=<{user1 at mydomain.com}>, delay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=92102,
>>>stat=queued
>>>Oct 11 11:37:02 mail sendmail[20448]: j9BGb2KV020448:
>>>to=<{user2 at mydomain.com}>, delay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=92102,
>>>stat=queued
>>>Oct 11 11:37:02 mail sendmail[20448]: j9BGb2KV020448:
>>>to=<{user3 at mydomain.com}>, delay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=92102,
>>>stat=queued
>>>Oct 11 11:37:04 mail sendmail[20449]: j9BGb2KV020448:
>>>to=<{user3 at mydomain.com}>,<{user2 at mydomain.com}>,<{user1 at mydomain.com}>,
>>>delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=182102,
>>>relay=[{internal mail server}] [x.x.x.x], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>>>(Requested mail action okay, completed)
>>>
>>>Sometimes there will be multiple recipients, sometimes just one.  I
>>>have verified that there are no specific rules for any of the
>>>individual users, or the relay servers.  I'm not even sure if this is
>>>a Mailscanner issue or a sendmail issue at this point.  With the
>>>exception of these few messages, everything is working just as
>>>expected.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance for any help!
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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>>Julian Field
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>>    
>>
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>
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>  
>

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