[SPAM] Re: MailScanner Broke on both Fedora Core 6 & 7

[Julian Field]

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> I've just fixed his system. You wouldn't have found it in a hurry, 
>> and it wasn't remotely related to Perl.
>>
>> Something in his sendmail.cf was making it ignore the 
>> -ODeliveryMode=queueonly command line switch to sendmail, causing it 
>> to immediately deliver all mail sent in. And yes, I know how to stop 
>> and start sendmail thoroughly so don't even go there. I've never seen 
>> anything like it. I upgraded his sendmail and sendmail-cf rpms, 
>> touched /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and rebuilt sendmail.cf from it with 
>> 'cd /etc/mail && make'. Lo and behold, sendmail started behaving 
>> itself again.
>
> But the log was clear enough to indicate that MailScanner was never 
> called upon? But sendmail was just having a laugh at Vernon's expense 
> and bypassed MailScanner completely. Or did I misunderstood the issue?
MailScanner was never managing to pick up the message before sendmail 
just delivered it.
>
> Part of my enquiry has to do with the troubleshooting hints I am 
> writing up. A working MTA without MS being called is something to 
> cover at some point.
The MTA, without MailScanner, looked to be working fine, everything was 
being delivered as it would be normally.
>
> BTW: Did you have a quick look at the first steps I took at a 
> troubleshooting checklist/guide? (The list may seem trivial but I know 
> troubleshooting is hard for a lot of people.)
No, I didn't. Sorry.

>
> Hugo.
>

Jules

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