Empty Emails

[Martin Hepworth]

Mevershosting.nl wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> Which beta should that be ? we also tried beta 4.56.4
> 
> i see now there is a beta, 5.56.6-1 should i try that one ?
> 
> Richard
> mevers
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Martin Hepworth [mailto:martinh at solidstatelogic.com]
> Verzonden: donderdag 28 september 2006 15:43
> Aan: MailScanner discussion
> Onderwerp: Re: Empty Emails
> 
> 
> Mevershosting.nl wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> The strange thing is we have several (10) mailscanners running, on
>> Fedora core 1 and 2
>>
>> all running Version 8.12.11.20060308 of sendmail
>>
>> The one machine we upgraded to version v4.55.10-3 never had this
> problem
>> before,
>> once upgraded the empty mails started.
>>
>> this machine has:
>>
>> Fedora Core 2
>> Sendmail 8.12.11.20060308
>> perl 5.8.0
>> spamassassin 3.1.5
>>
>> hope somebody finds the problem
>>
>> Richard
>> Mevers
>>
> 
> This is due to a change in 4.55(?) where the default lock type was for 
> sendmail was changed from flock (for sendmail 8.12) to posix (which 
> sendmail 8.13 uses). The code didn;t autodetect which version you where 
> running - I believe this has been fixed in the beta due for release as 
> stable this weekend.
> 

OK - what happens if you move the lock type to posix?

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

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