sendmail greet_pause feature

Joost Waversveld joost at waversveld.nl
Thu Feb 2 10:02:16 GMT 2006


You must force posix locking... The standard will be flock locking. I 
thought Julian is thinking about changing the standard to posix, but at 
the moment the standard is still "flock"

So it must be "Lock Type = posix" for you... ;)

Joost Waversveld

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    Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:53:08 +0000
    From: Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: sendmail greet_pause feature
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> On 01/02/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Linux, sendmail 8.13 and upwards needs posix, anything before 8.13
>> needs flock.
>
> Is locking autodetecting, if you see what I mean? In the
> MailScanner.conf it says...
>
> # How to lock spool files.
> # Don't set this unless you *know* you need to.
> # For sendmail, it defaults to "flock".
> # For sendmail 8.13 onwards, you will probably need to change it to posix.
> # For Exim, it defaults to "posix".
> # No other type is implemented.
> Lock Type =
>
> Does MailScanner *know* I'm running 8.13 or should I force posix locking?
>
> Will.
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