Webmail on localhost is not being scanned by MailScanner

BB brent.bolin at gmail.com
Sun Feb 25 22:10:56 CET 2007


You crazy sweed what ever would make you think that would work.

It did!

tku

On 2/25/07, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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