Webmail on localhost is not being scanned by MailScanner

[Glenn Steen]

On 25/02/07, BB <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have just noticed mail sent from SquirrelMail running on the same box that
> MailScanner runs on is not being scanned.
>
> Modified MailScanner.conf to include a file containing ques
>
> Incoming Queue Dir =
> /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/mqueue.in.list.conf
> /var/spool/mqueue.in
> /var/spool/clientmqueue
>
>
> Here are my sendmail processes -
> sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
> sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue (sendmail)
> sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
> sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue (sendmail)
> sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
> sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
> sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
>
>
> This kinda makes sense because sendmail needs to accept mail in a queue.
> MailScanner then needs to process and deliver back to sendmail for delivery.
>
> I believe that mail generated on the localhost uses clientmqueue, but I
> don't think MailScanner is working correctly with sendmail to accomplish
> this.
>
> What am I missing ?
>
I'm surely no Sendmail guru, but ... can't you just set squirrelmail
to send "via the front gate" instead (meaning that you use the fqdn/IP
of the real IF instead of loopback/localhost)?

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