mailscanner + exim release from out queue

Alex Neuman alex at vidadigital.com.pa
Sat Apr 27 16:57:50 IST 2013


Just for informational purposes - I'm not judging - I'd like to know
why you've chosen Exim over Sendmail or Postfix, for example. If it's
too "off topic" it's ok to answer off-list - y en español si te es más
fácil :D

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:
> In that case maybe you've noy got the two exim instances running. check
> you've started both Exim processes.
>
> Also the Outgoing queue in MailScanner.conf is wrong, this should the queue
> dir that the 'outgoing' exim process is reading.
>
> The main architecture of MailScanner is that it sits between two MTA queues
> and moves 'good' email from one queue to another. So you need to make sure
> yo've got the incoming queue that just holds onto the email for MaiLScanner
> to grab and the outgoing queue that MailScanner will drop scanned email into
> for onward delivery
>
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth, CISSP
> Oxford, UK
>
>
> On 24 April 2013 16:05, Manel Gimeno Zaragozá <magiza83 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on a proyect using exim + mailscanner. I've followed the
>> installation guide from http://www.mailscanner.info/exim.html and now exim +
>> mailscanner is almost working, the only problem i've found is to release the
>> mails from exim out queue.
>>
>> Reading the documentation I've not found any way to do it, so I create a
>> cron to do it every minute.
>>
>> Is this the way to do it?
>> My conf file looks like:
>>
>> Mailscanner.conf
>> ...
>> Run As User = exim
>> Run As Group = exim
>> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim.in/input
>> Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim/input
>> MTA = exim
>> Sendmail = /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim/exim.conf.out -oMr MailScanner
>> Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim/exim.conf.out -oMr MailScanner
>> Quarantine User = exim
>> ...
>>
>> Thanks & Regards.
>>
>> Manel
>>
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