spam getting through without even being checked

[Michael Baird]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:17 -0700, Chris Yuzik wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> Thanks for getting on this issue. Perhaps together and with the help of 
> the gurus on this mailing list we can crack this problem.
> 
> Andy Norris wrote:
> > Yes, Chris, this is the problem I'm having with Ensim / MailScanner 
> > right now. Are you getting tons of sendmail processes running?
> Yes! Several sendmail processes running. Also, high server load (7 to 
> 10) during peak times of the day.
> > 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.
> That's interesting. If I stop sendmail and MailScanner, then start only 
> MailScanner, I don't see anything that indicates that sendmail has 
> started up. Since it's a live server, I have to be particularly careful 
> about when I experiment with 
Ensim uses custom MailScanner startup scripts, they've actually
seperated the MailScanner and Sendmail somewhat. With Ensim, you must
restart both MailScanner "service MailScanner restart" and "service
sendmail restart", the MailScanner init doesn't start both (If you are
using it the Ensim delivered way). But again, MailScanner doesn't do
anything for spam on Ensim (unless you modify it, beyond their setup).

Regards
Michael Baird