spam getting through without even being checked

[Andy Norris]

Yes, Chris, this is the problem I'm having with Ensim / MailScanner 
right now. Are you getting tons of sendmail processes running?

If I stop sendmail, like I'm supposed to for MailScanner, MailScanner 
does, indeed, start the instances of sendmail that it needs for 
pushing the mail to the mailboxes. However, I cannot sent mail from 
my email client through the server, as there's no connection (nothing 
listening on port 25). So I have to be running sendmail, and 
MailScanner is only scanning the mail it gets around to before other 
sendmail processes deliver it without scanning.

Also, when shutting down sendmail, the 
/home/virtual/FILESYSTEMTEMPLATE/services/sendmail/mqueue directory 
gets backed up with a lot of mail... then when starting sendmail 
again -- because I have to! -- it takes a lot of time to get that 
mail out the door. In fact, there is mail in that directory from a 
couple days ago, and I need to figure out how to get sendmail to deal 
with all that. Is that directory filling up for you, as well?

Seems that just recently things have started going more haywire. 
Don't know if it's just that we're being pounded by spammers or what.

It would be great if we could share anything we might find to get to 
where we need to be!

Thanks,
Andy Norris
andy at tireswing.net


At 10:37 am 2006-10-13, you wrote:


>Chris Yuzik wrote:
>>Ken A wrote:
>>>Try restarting MailScanner AFTER you issue the two commands above. 
>>>It should start incoming and outgoing sendmail processes.
>>>
>>>If you installed from the MailScanner rpm, you should have seen 
>>>these instructions at the end of the install process telling you 
>>>to disable sendmail with the commands above (not sure about the 
>>>tar.gz), since the MailScanner init script handles starting and 
>>>stopping sendmail processes after MailScanner is installed.
>>>
>>>If you have your original sendmail init script still running, it 
>>>may claim port 25 and so the one that MailScanner tries to start 
>>>is unable to bind to the port.. See your /var/log/maillog for 
>>>sendmail errors about this.
>>Hi Ken,
>>I installed from the RPM, but this server is a bit unusual because 
>>it's running the Ensim control panel, so not sure if everything is 
>>"by the book".
>>I tried shutting down sendmail, then restarting MailScanner, but 
>>nothing started listening on port 25 until I started up sendmail 
>>again. When MailScanner starts, even if sendmail is stopped it says 
>>nothing about sendmail, so something must be wrong. Not sure what 
>>to try or what to investigate next.
>>In my MailScanner.conf file, the following might give a hint:
>>MTA = sendmail
>>Sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/sendmail -ODeliveryMode=background 
>>-OQueueDirectory=/home/virtual/FILESYSTEMTEMPLATE/services/sendmail/mqueue.scanned 
>>
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>I don't use Ensim, so I'm not sure what the differences might be, 
>but normally with the rpm (and install.sh), you will have an 
>incoming instance of sendmail listening on port 25 putting mail in 
>an incoming mail queue (mqueue.in) created by the install process. 
>This mail is then picked up by MailScanner, scanned, then placed in 
>outgoing mail queue, which is the default "original" mqueue.
>So, your system must be setup to start 2 instances of sendmail. 
>Sendmail should start from the MailScanner init script. You might 
>want to take a look at the init script and your /var/log/maillog to 
>see why sendmail isn't starting. The defaults might be wrong for 
>Ensim, so it might be better to get some feedback from someone else 
>on the list who uses Ensim.
>
>Ken A.
>Pacific.Net
>
>
>
>>Thanks,
>>Chris
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