MailScanner Broke on both Fedora Core 6 & 7

[Scott Silva]

on 10/4/2007 1:43 PM Julian Field spake the following:
> I've just fixed his system. You wouldn't have found it in a hurry, and 
> it wasn't remotely related to Perl.
Julian, you are the greatest!
> 
> 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.
> 
> I've never seen anything like it. It's taken me the best part of an hour 
> to find it. That's £200 or $400 at my usual rates, but it was an 
Boy do I feel underpaid! I usually do off hours work for the $150(£75) range. 
But I do a lot of stuff for very poor non-profits like churches, and donate a 
lot of the time gratis.
I think I am going to get into this MailScanner support business.  The jokes 
will still be free... But you get what you pay for! ;-P Glenn will probably 
say I am still overcharging at free...


> interesting problem so I've just asked him for some stuff off my wish 
> list instead :-)
> 
> I watched the sendmail command line go past (added a set -x to 
> /etc/init.d/MailScanner so I could check it) and upped the LogLevel to 
> 14 so I could get it to log its own command line, and all the switches 
> were there completely as normal. It was just choosing to ignore the 
> queueonly instruction completely! Upgraded sendmail and sendmail-cf, 
> rebuild .cf and it started working normally. Nothing else wrong. Weird...
> 
> Jules.
I had a problem like this back in the RedHat 7.3 days. I think it was back 
when RedHat changed from keeping mail config files in /etc and then moved them 
to /etc/mail. It could be as far back as RH 6.0. Either way, it borked real bad.

-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!