MailScanner: extracting attachments

[Julian Field]

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Devon Harding wrote:
>
>
>     > 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.
I've just spent the last 3 hours or so trying to implement this :-(
Because of the fact that I read the configuration template data from a 
Perl source file itself, I can't read it in twice, I can't rewind the 
filehandle as Perl won't let me.

So, at the moment, no can do. Sorry.

It is surely good practice to do a "MailScanner --lint" after changing 
stuff anyway, isn't it?

Jules

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