Messages not getting scanned

[dnsadmin 1bigthink.com]

At 03:51 PM 10/11/2005, you wrote:

>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:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> > >
> > >
> > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > >>Hash: SHA1
> > >>
> > >>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!
> > >>>


Try 'chkconfig --list Mailscanner' and 'chkconfig --list sendmail' 
from the command line to see if you are starting up the two processes 
indepently.

Cheers! 

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