Problem messages

[Markus Nilsson]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Earickson" <jaearick at colby.edu>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: fredag, 2 dec 2011 15:55:25
> Subject: Re: Problem messages
> 
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Markus Nilsson <markus at markusoft.se>
> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jeff Earickson" <jaearick at colby.edu>
> >> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >> Sent: torsdag, 1 dec 2011 21:12:44
> >> Subject: Re: Problem messages
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I could not get this message to run thru sendmail or MailScanner.
> >>  To
> >> do it, I would need the original qf and df files, the two
> >> components
> >> of the message as sendmail handles them.  I tried to reconstruct
> >> the
> >> two parts (header and body) but couldn't get it to work.
> >>
> >> Jeff Earickson
> >> Colby College
> >
> > What happens if you just pipe the message to sendmail; this changes
> > the mail slightly, so maybe the bug goes away, but maybe worth a
> > shot?
> >
> > sendmail test_recipient at test.com < mail_file
> 
> Markus,
> 
> Sendmail just takes the mail_file and sends it on to our MX records
> (Postini/google in our case).  MailScanner never saw it at all.
> Somehow I need to drop the qf and df components of the message into
> /var/spool/mqueue.in so that MailScanner can pick up the message.  :(
> 

Ok, so I guess your mailscanner is by-passed when the mail is inserted from localhost..?

I'm not using sendmail, so I can't create the files for you; but in postfix I would have added a broken transport for one made-up domain, by pointing it to an IP which doesn't respond. Then I would send the mail to that domain, and the mail would be stuck in the deferred queue, where I could easily pick it up!

/Markus