MailScanner Broke on both Fedora Core 6 & 7

[Glenn Steen]

On 04/10/2007, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> 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!
... And a wise decision on Vernons part, to contract Jules...;)

> > 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...
Naah, you're just like the rest of us... Worth the pennies we get:-):-)...

> > 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.
Wasn't that in the switch from 6.x to 7.0? I have some vague
recollections like that... Oh well, doesn't matter now:-).

Cheers
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