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[Mike Patchen]

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Yes, mqueue and mqueue.in.  Major brain fart there, sorry.  Sometimes
the fingers work independently from the brain when writing email.

On 10/11/05, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Mike Patchen wrote:
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> >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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> >>>
> >>>
> >>- --
> >>Julian Field
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