how to actually disable MCP checks?

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at colby.edu
Wed Jul 26 18:46:34 IST 2006


Julian,

Our twiddles with $speed > 0 for 4.55.8 the other day on the beta
mailing list removed spurious MCP and disinfect syslogging if
"Log Speed = yes".  This sounds like the same issue.  This is fixed
in 4.55.8 + the patch from the other day.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:30:34 +0100
> From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: how to actually disable MCP checks?
> 
> It's just printing irrelevant log entries. The MCP checks are not being done. 
> I'll see what I can do to stop them. MCP checks are definitely not being 
> done.
>
> Daniel Maher wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> 
>> I would like to disable MCP checks on one group of my email servers.
>>
>> 
>> In MailScanner.conf:
>> 
>> MCP Checks = no
>>
>> 
>> However, if I take a look in my logs, it would appear MCP checks are still 
>> being run:
>> 
>> Jul 26 11:38:11 bugs MailScanner[27585]: MCP Checks: Starting
>> 
>> Jul 26 11:38:11 bugs MailScanner[27585]: MCP Checks completed at 546003 
>> bytes per second
>> 
>> Jul 26 11:38:14 bugs MailScanner[26824]: MCP Checks: Starting
>> 
>> Jul 26 11:38:14 bugs MailScanner[26824]: MCP Checks completed at 607785 
>> bytes per second
>> 
>> Jul 26 11:38:16 bugs MailScanner[27499]: MCP Checks: Starting
>> 
>> Jul 26 11:38:16 bugs MailScanner[27499]: MCP Checks completed at 546278 
>> bytes per second
>>
>> 
>> What?s the deal?  How do I /actually/ turn off MCP checks?
>>
>> 
>> Alternatively, MCP checks are in fact disabled (which is why they appear to 
>> process so quickly) ? in which case, I can?t help but wonder why such 
>> misleading output is still sent to the logs?
>>
>> 
>> Any comments?  Thanks!
>>
>>
>> 
>> --
>>
>>   _
>>  °v°  Daniel Maher
>> /(_)\ Administrateur Système Unix
>>
>>  ^ ^  Unix System Administrator
>>
>> 
>> //Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.//
>>
>> 
>
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