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Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Feb 4 17:03:10 GMT 2006



Robert A. Thompson wrote:
>> My best guess would be the Lock Type setting. If you are on Linux running
>> sendmail 8.12 or older, you need to set Lock Type = flock, as it will use
>> posix by default with sendmail. This is a change to previous versions,
>> most of my users run 8.13 on Linux so the default is set for them so it is
>> correct for most people. But yours may be wrong.
>>     
>
> appears to be a good guess (Thanks Julian).  I've started tweaking with
> the locking and so far so good.  In our case, I set it to posix.  We are
> running rhel4 with sendmail 8.13 and mailscanner 4.49 (fixing to go to
> 50).  We hadn't set any settings on lock type, but setting to posix and
> restarting appears to be doing the trick.  (still early though)
>   
sendmail 8.13 on Linux is the classic one that always needs to be posix. 
This has become the default in MailScanner 4.50.

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