LOTS of sendmail processes

[Julian Field]

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Why are you doing a service sendmail restart on a box running 
MailScanner? That would explain why your mail is not being MailScanned, 
you are bypassing it.
service sendmail stop
chkconfig sendmail off
chkconfig MailScanner on
service MailScanner start

You should *never* start the sendmail service with MailScanner on the 
system, as MailScanner starts up sendmail in the way that it needs to, 
so that the messages are queued up, then MailScanned, then delivered.

service sendmail start will totally bypass this.

Andy Norris wrote:
>
> When I issue a service sendmail restart command, I get nine pids 
> immediately, and it goes up from there. Way up most of the time.
>
> I have lots of email that is not being scanned by MailScanner at all, 
> and it's just the last few days this has been happening.
>
> sendmail v8.12.11
> RHEL ES v3 (Taroon update 4)
> Avg load somewhere around 0.25 (goes to 0.60 and higher depending on 
> time of day)
> Perl v5.8.0
> Using spamassassin v3.1.0
> This is on a machine running Ensim Pro 4.0.3-22.rhel.3ES
>
> I'm tempted a bit to "uninstall" MailScanner and SpamAssassin -- if 
> that's possible -- and start all over again. I know it's got to be 
> something that was duplicated somewhere... my fault, of course.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>

Jules

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