LOTS of sendmail processes

[Andy Norris]

Thanks Julian.

The mail was not going through at all. For an hour it was pooling up 
in the queue, and status for MailScanner was OK.

I'm on a box running Ensim, so I've got layers of complexity here, 
and it's not always clear what services / modules Ensim loads.

Thanks for your continued help.

Andy

At 02:05 pm 2006-10-11, you wrote:
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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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