sendmail greet_pause feature

[Joost Waversveld]

I really do not know if this is for all the OS's. I do know that it is 
true for Redhat, CentOS, etc.

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    Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 08:05:58 -0500 (EST)
    From: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick at colby.edu>
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Subject: Re: sendmail greet_pause feature
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> Same here.  running Solaris 9 with sendmail 8.13.5.  I've never
> touched the Lock Type setting.
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Anthony Peacock wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:32:50 +0000
>> From: Anthony Peacock <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: Re: sendmail greet_pause feature
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Joost Waversveld wrote:
>>> 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... ;)
>>
>> Is this true for all OSs?
>>
>> I am using Sendmail 8.13 and the default locking on Solaris and I am 
>> not having any problems at all.  I always thought the advice was 
>> only change this if you are having problems.  I also recall that the 
>> requirement for posix locking is dependent on the OS.
>>
>> Grateful for any correction.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Joost Waversveld
>>>
>>> ----- Message from wmcdonald at gmail.com ---------
>>>    Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:53:08 +0000
>>>    From: Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>> Subject: Re: sendmail greet_pause feature
>>>      To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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>>
>>
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