MailScanner + Sendmail = "user unknown"

[Glenn Steen]

On 10/04/2008, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
>
> > On 09/04/2008, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I've inherited a MailScanner setup that is pretty questionable (from a
> > >  security standpoint), and I'm rebuilding the box from scratch.  I've
> > >  gotten everything installed (CentOS, clamav, SA, MailScanner, Sendmail)
> > >  to have the system act as a relay to an exchange backend.
> > >
> > >  Oddly, it does not seem to be picking up the messages that are being
> > >  left in /var/spool/mqueue.in.  I see the messages being deposited
> there,
> > >  but they don't seem to be acted upon.  Is there, perhaps, setting that
> I
> > >  might have missed/glossed over that is obvious?
> > >
> > >  -Rich
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Versions?
> >
> > Have you run "MailScanner --lint" and/or "MailScanner --debug"? What
> > does "ps -ef" tell you? Is MailScanner running, and what does it claim
> > it is doing?
> >
>
>
>  Oh.. sorry.. it's a fresh install on CentOS using the latest version of
> MailScanner, Sendmail, SA, and clamav.  I hadn't tried MailScanner --debug
> but I did enable debug within MailScanner.conf (didn't give me many hints),
> but while watching the logs, after it forks off all of it's processes, it
> just seems to sit there.. waiting.  The MailScanner processes are definitely
> running.
>

Right, so what does ps tell you they are doing? Jules rewrite the
commandline so that you can follow what each child think it is doing
(at least in a "rough estimate" way:-).

Cheers
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