Emails not getting scanned

[Tony Arcus]

Quoting Chris Stone <axisml at gmail.com>:

> Tony,
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Tony Arcus <tony at ai.net.nz> wrote:
>> Sendmail is:
>> service sendmail stop
>> chkconfig sendmail off
>>
>> Mailscanner is on
>>
>> When I do a
>> /etc/init.d/MailScanner status
>> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>
>> All looks good and as I would expect,
>> but when I do a
>> /etc/init.d/sendmail status
>> sendmail is stopped
>> sm-client (pid  19322) is running...
>
> You turned off the sendmail init scripts with your chkconfig - as you
> should have. That sendmail init script is going to be looking at
> /var/spool/mqueue not /var/spool/mqueue.in. The sendmail daemon you
> are seeing with the /etc/init.d/MailScanner status (or service
> MailScanner status) is the one that is using /var/spool/mqueue.in as
> the incoming queue and /var/spool/mqueue as the outbound queue. You
> should only use the MailScanner init script to see the status of the
> daemons rather than the sendmail init script.
>
> The sm-client indicates that your local sendmail client is running,
> which you do not need. Do a 'service sendmail stop' and then a
> 'service MailScanner restart' to clean up and make sure only the
> sendmail daemons you need are running. The 'chkconfig sendmail off'
> will keep that init script from running on boot.
>
>> Still nothing here that causes me to think things are wrong.
>> What I can confirm is that emails are entering the queue
>> /var/spool/mqueue.in/, but immediately get processed (by something) directly
>> to the user. MailScanner never gets to process them.
>
> Take a look at the 'Incoming Queue Dir' setting in your
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf file. You should have:
>
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue.in
>
> but, I am guessing, you probably have:
>
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue
>
>
>
> Chris
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Thanks Chris for your suggestions.

What you have suggested is what I have so far been trying to trouble shoot.
No sendmail process is running as a result of running
/etc/init.d/sendmail start

The sendmail processes I currently have running are as a result of  
starting MailScanner.
ps aux|grep send
root      1328  0.0  0.1  10028  2008 ?        Ss   12:10   0:00  
sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp     1332  0.0  0.1   9792  1532 ?        Ss   12:10   0:00  
sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/clientmqueue
root      1336  0.0  0.1   9784  1620 ?        Ss   12:10   0:00  
sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue

Even on systems that are running correctly there is a running sm-client.
I looked in /var/run/sm-client.pid on my good systems where everything  
is operational and:

cat /var/run/sm-client.pid
1332
/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q15m -OPidFile=/var/run/sm-client.pid
[root at mail strider]# ps aux|grep 1332
smmsp     1332  0.0  0.1   9792  1532 ?        Ss   12:10   0:00  
sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/clientmqueue

So unless I am mistaken (always possible) this is okay.

As for /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
cat /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf|grep "Queue Dir"
Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue.in
Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue

So everything would seem to be set up correctly, the incoming emails  
are going in to /var/spool/mqueue.in (not some where else) and  
instantly on to the user, so MailScanner never gets them to process.

So what is getting the messages out of /var/spool/mqueue.in, and how  
to stop this so MailScanner does them 5 seconds later.

PS
Centos 6
Mailscanner 4.84.3
sendmail-cf-8.14.4-8.el6.noarch
sendmail-8.14.4-8.el6.i686

1 gig ram



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