Exim with Mailscanner and retry problem

[Martin Hepworth]

Matthias Sutter wrote:
> Martin Hepworth wrote:
> 
>> Matthias Sutter wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I use Mailscanner with Exim and now we get some problems with 
>>> graylisting.
>>> Is it correct that the Mailscanner start the exim outgouing deamon?
>>> Because I set in the initscritp / sysconfig /Mailscaner the option 
>>> -q10m but we do not see an retry attemp ...
>>>
>>> Can sombody help me how give teh exim the retry option ?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot
>>>
>>> Matthias Sutter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> Depends on how you installed MailScanner, from the rpm, the tarball????
>>
>> Normally editting the MTA startup script is up to you I think??
>>
> Martin
> 
> I installed Mailscanner as rpm and exim from the tarball.
> 
> Do you mean the Mailscanner startupscript ?
> This is the exim outgoing section from the mailscanner script ....
> 
>        elif [ $MTA = 'exim' ]; then
>          startproc -p $srvpid $EXIM -C $EXIMOUTCF -bd -q10m 2> /dev/null
>          rc_status
>        fi
> 
> But I have no running deamon ...
> Should there a proccess - or is the processview correct ?
> 
> 18862 ?        Ss     0:00 /opt/exim/bin/exim -C /opt/exim/configure.in -bd
> 31168 ?        S      0:00  \_ /opt/exim/bin/exim -C
> /opt/exim/configure.in -bd
> 31792 ?        S      0:00  \_ /opt/exim/bin/exim -C
> /opt/exim/configure.in -bd
> 31955 ?        S      0:00  \_ /opt/exim/bin/exim -C
> /opt/exim/configure.in -bd
> 18887 ?        Ss     0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children,
> sleeping
> 18888 ?        S      0:32  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 31776 ?        Z      0:00  |   \_ [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 18927 ?        S      0:32  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 31873 ?        Z      0:00  |   \_ [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 18946 ?        S      0:40  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 31850 ?        Z      0:00  |   \_ [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 18961 ?        S      0:30  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 19003 ?        R      0:35  \_ MailScanner: scanning for filenames and
> filetypes
> 31988 ?        Zs     0:00  |   \_ [file] <defunct>
> 19050 ?        S      0:29  \_ MailScanner: virus scanning
> 31973 ?        Rs     0:00  |   \_ /usr/local/Sophos/bin/sweep -sc -f
> -all -rec  ss -archive -cab -loopback --no-follow-symlinks
> --no-reset-atime -TNEF .
> 19099 ?        S      0:34  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 31772 ?        Z      0:00  |   \_ [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 19150 ?        S      0:35  \_ MailScanner: virus scanning
> 31972 ?        Rs     0:01  |   \_ /usr/local/Sophos/bin/sweep -sc -f
> -all -rec  ss -archive -cab -loopback --no-follow-symlinks
> --no-reset-atime -TNEF .
> 19170 ?        S      0:39  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 19183 ?        S      0:40  \_ MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 31740 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 18891 ?        S      0:04 MailWatch SQL
> 28887 ?        S      0:00 /opt/exim/bin/exim -C /opt/exim/configure.out
> -Mc 1GYITb-0007P3-Dn 1GYITd-0007Q5-Jv 1GYITd-0007Pv-5N 1GYITb-0007PK-S5
> 1GYITd-0007Py
> 31989 ?        S      0:00  \_ /opt/exim/bin/exim -C
> /opt/exim/configure.out -Mc 1GYITb-0007P3-Dn 1GYITd-0007Q5-Jv
> 1GYITd-0007Pv-5N 1GYITb-0007PK-S5 1GYITd-00
> 31990 ?        S      0:00      \_ /opt/exim/bin/exim -C
> /opt/exim/configure.out -Mc 1GYITb-0007P3-Dn 1GYITd-0007Q5-Jv
> 1GYITd-0007Pv-5N 1GYITb-0007PK-S5 1GYIT
> 28989 ?        S      0:00 /opt/exim/bin/exim -C /opt/exim/configure.out
> -Mc 1GYITk-0007Rt-9W 1GYITh-0007Ql-08 1GYITj-0007Ri-MY 1GYITg-0007R0-T8
> 1GYITl-0007Re
> 31935 ?        S      0:00  \_ /opt/exim/bin/exim -C
> /opt/exim/configure.out -Mc 1GYITk-0007Rt-9W 1GYITh-0007Ql-08
> 1GYITj-0007Ri-MY 1GYITg-0007R0-T8 1GYITl-00
> 31937 ?        S      0:00      \_ /opt/exim/bin/exim -C
> /opt/exim/configure.out -Mc 1GYITk-0007Rt-9W 1GYITh-0007Ql-08
> 1GYITj-0007Ri-MY 1GYITg-0007R0-T8 1GYIT
> 31920 ?        S      0:00 /opt/exim/bin/exim -C /opt/exim/configure.out
> -Mc 1GYIZ0-0008IL-Ly 1GYIZ1-0008IU-Gu 1GYIZ0-0008ID-FM
> 31947 ?        S      0:00  \_ /opt/exim/bin/exim -C
> /opt/exim/configure.out -Mc 1GYIZ0-0008IL-Ly 1GYIZ1-0008IU-Gu
> 1GYIZ0-0008ID-FM
> 
> 
> 

hmm my outgoing exim is started like this..

/usr/local/sbin/exim -q15m -C /usr/local/etc/exi
m/configure.out -oP /var/run/eximout.pid

NB:

NO -bd (other wise it will deamonise itself and listen on port 25!).

-oP to tell it to write the PID to a different file.

Also my configure.out has the log file locations pointing at a different 
place so I can see what the inbound and outbound exim's are doing with 
ease (ie hmm that log entry is it for the inbound or outbound exim????)


-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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