Outbound queue delivery

[Gottschalk, David]

Found the problem.

I had checked to make sure the "sendmail = /usr/lib/sendmail" was to the correct path before, but I didn't realize MailScanner used "sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/sendmail" to deliver clean messages.

That path was incorrect for Solaris (I had copied another MailScanner.conf from another working server), so I changed it to match the first sendmail, and it's working now.

Thanks for your help Julian.

David Gottschalk
AAIT Infrastructure Technology Services
david.gottschalk at emory.edu
404.727.9744

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:30 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Outbound queue delivery

in which case you need to determine that it is actually successfully
doing the call to Sendmail and Sendmail2 (both set in MailScanner.conf).

Gottschalk, David wrote:
> It's set to batch.
>
> David Gottschalk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:14 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Outbound queue delivery
>
> In MailScanner.conf, what is "Delivery Method" set to? It should always
> be "batch".
>
> Gottschalk, David wrote:
>
>> Over the last few days, I've been building a mail relay on Solaris
>> using sendmail. The box is also running the latest version of
>> MailScanner, so mail can get checked before going out.
>>
>> I edited the sendmail startup script, and added MailScanner and a
>> sendmail queue runner. I've ran into something strange though now, and
>> I've got a few questions.
>>
>> Mail was sitting in outbound queue for a long period of time after
>> being processed by MailScanner. I had set the queue runner to process
>> mail every 15 minutes, so that's understandable.
>>
>> I set the queue to run peristantly with the "-qp" option, and mail now
>> gets delivered immediately after scanning.
>>
>> I thought though that MailScanner kicked off a sendmail process to
>> deliver the message immediately after scanning. Is that a incorrect
>> assumption?
>>
>> I have five main production boxes that deliver mail on average 10
>> seconds or less after MailScanner finishes scanning them, and they
>> have a sendmail queue runner at running every 15 mins. They have a
>> large volume of mail going through them though.
>>
>> So could someone explain this to me?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> David Gottschalk
>>
>>
>
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