Exim with Mailscanner and retry problem

[Matthias Sutter]

Martin Hepworth wrote:

> 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????)
>
>
Thanks to you,

Now it works.The problem was in the Mailscanner initscript. The outgoing 
startup part should look like:

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