FW: Another attack to fight off

[Jim Hermann]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 05:05 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: FW: Another attack to fight off
>
> Jim Hermann wrote:
> > I use this setting:
> >
> > Incoming Queue Dir =
> /home/virtual/FILESYSTEMTEMPLATE/services/sendmail/mqueue
> /home/virtual/site*/fst/var/spool/mqueue
> >
> > It collects email from 200 different directories.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> Just for the list's reference, this is an init.d script problem, as it
> doesn't directly support multiple incoming queues. So it has trouble
> starting up the incoming sendmail process. INQDIR is calculated in
> /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner and used to set the -OQueueDirectory=
> command-line option in /etc/init.d/MailScanner. It is read
> straight out
> of MailScanner.conf. So if MailScanner.conf's setting refers to a text
> file listing directory names, the init.d script tries to start up
> sendmail with the QueueDirectory option set to a text file,
> so it shouts
> and screams about it :-(
>
> MailScanner itself is working just fine. Ideally a fancier
> init.d script
> would find the text file and make nasty noises that it won't
> be able to
> start up the incoming sendmail without modification.
>
> Jules

That explains the difference.  I don't use the standard MailScanner /etc/init.d/MailScanner script.  I have custom scripts for starting MailScanner and sendmail.

Jim