change in behaviour

[Martin.Hepworth]

Greg

It selects the lock type based on the MTA itself not just the version.

Most people are on modern sendmails now so for sendmail it defaults to posix rather than flock.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Greg Matthews
> Sent: 09 May 2008 13:03
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: change in behaviour
>
> Installing MailScanner at a customer site on RHEL3 I noticed file
> locking problems. It seems the auto-detecting of required lock type
> (dependent on sendmail version) does not work in 4.68.8.
>
> When I manually set the lock type to flock, the locking problems
> disappeared.
>
> Waaay back on this list there was much discussion about lock type and
> then Julian made MailScanner autodetect the required locking... am I
> misremembering? Anyway, 4.68.8 defaulted to posix whereas the previous
> version (4.50.15) autodetected correctly and worked with a blank "Lock
> Type ="
>
> Not a major problem as I found and fixed it by setting "Lock Type =
> flock"  but thought it might be of interest.
>
> RHEL3
> sendmail 8.12.x
> perl 5.8.0
> MailScanner 4.68.8
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