MailScanner: extracting attachments

Devon Harding devonharding at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 16:26:16 GMT 2008


>
>
> > The usual way for me to restart MailScanner after a change is
> >
> > service MailScaner restart;tail -f /var/log/maillog
> >
> > Then the output of the syslog file will show wether or not MailScanner
> > was happy or if I had my fingers all thumbled up again and made some
> > horrible typos.
> >
>

I too have to start MailScanner with tail as sometimes sendmail doesn't dire
gracefully and you end up with port in use.


> Unfortunately, I read the config after I've forked, unlike Apache which
> appears to read it first. So by the time I've read the config it's
> already too late.
> I'll take a look, but don't hold out much hope other than reading the
> conf then throwing it away, just to syntax check it before starting up.
> That might be possible.
>

This would be really slick and save some time troubleshooting.

-Devon
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