MailScanner Ignoring All Emails

Shawn Iverson iversons at rushville.k12.in.us
Fri Aug 25 16:13:15 UTC 2017


Something doesn't jive here...from your earlier thread...

> [root at mailscanner MailWatch-1.2.5]# ps -ef|grep sendmail
> root     17992     1  0 08:08 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue
> runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue

> root     17994     1  0 08:08 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting
> connections

> smmsp    18007     1  0 08:08 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue
> runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue

These are not the ones started by ms-sendmail.

It should be watching /var/spool/mqueue.in, not /var/spool/mqueue...

You don't have a rogue init scirpt, do you?



On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Quintin S. Giesbrecht <q at snj.ca> wrote:

> Here are the scripts from /etc/systemd/system.... that systemctl enable
> ms-sendmail created - hopefully that makes sense...:
>
> [root at mailscanner multi-user.target.wants]# cat ms-sendmail.service
> [Unit]
> Description=Sendmail Mail Transport Client for MailScanner
> After=syslog.target network.target
> Conflicts=postfix.service exim.service sendmail.service sm-client.service
> Wants=ms-sendmail-in.service ms-sendmail-out.service
> BindsTo=ms-sendmail-in.service ms-sendmail-out.service
>
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> PIDFile=/run/sm-client.pid
> Environment=SENDMAIL_OPTS=-q1h
> ExecStartPre=/bin/touch /run/sm-client.pid
> ExecStartPre=/bin/chown smmsp:smmsp /run/sm-client.pid
> ExecStartPre=-/sbin/restorecon /run/sm-client.pid
> ExecStartPre=-/etc/mail/make
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac $SENDMAIL_OPTS
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> Also=ms-sendmail-in.service ms-sendmail-out.service
> [root at mailscanner multi-user.target.wants]#
> [root at mailscanner multi-user.target.wants]#
> [root at mailscanner multi-user.target.wants]# cat ms-sendmail-in.service
> [Unit]
> Description=Sendmail Mail Transport Inbound Agent for MailScanner
> After=syslog.target network.target
> Conflicts=postfix.service exim.service sendmail.service sm-client.service
> Wants=ms-sendmail.service ms-sendmail-out.service
> BindsTo=ms-sendmail.service ms-sendmail-out.service
>
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> PIDFile=/run/sendmail.in.pid
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn
> -ODeliveryMode=queueonly -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
> -OPidFile=/run/sendmail.in.pid
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> Also=ms-sendmail.service ms-sendmail-out.service
> [root at mailscanner multi-user.target.wants]#
> [root at mailscanner multi-user.target.wants]#
> [root at mailscanner multi-user.target.wants]# cat ms-sendmail-out.service
> [Unit]
> Description=Sendmail Mail Transport Outbound Agent for MailScanner
> After=syslog.target network.target
> Conflicts=postfix.service exim.service sendmail.service sm-client.service
> Wants=ms-sendmail.service ms-sendmail-in.service
> BindsTo=ms-sendmail.service ms-sendmail-in.service
>
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> PIDFile=/run/sendmail.out.pid
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m -OPidFile=/run/sendmail.out.pid
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> Also=ms-sendmail.service ms-sendmail-in.service
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces+q=
> snj.ca at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Antony Stone
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 8:23 AM
> To: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: MailScanner Ignoring All Emails
>
> On Friday 25 August 2017 at 15:16:48, Quintin S. Giesbrecht wrote:
>
> > I did that, from the instructions at the end of the MS install…also
> > confirmed that the directories have the correct permissions.  Mail is
> > flowing, so I assume that the queue folders are correct, MS is just
> > not jumping in…and it is running ☺
>
> That doesn't sound like a good assumption to me (about the queue folders
> being correct).
>
> If your listener process is putting received mail into the folder being
> monitored by the queue runner process, for example, MailScanner will be
> sitting waiting for emails to appear in another folder altogether, and mail
> will simply be delivered by the queue runner as soon as it's received.
>
> > [root at mailscanner MailWatch-1.2.5]# ps -ef|grep sendmail
> > root     17992     1  0 08:08 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue
> > runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
>
> > root     17994     1  0 08:08 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting
> > connections
>
> > smmsp    18007     1  0 08:08 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue
> > runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
>
> 1. I'm not sure I understand why you have two queue runner processes
> going, with different timings and monitoring different directories.
>
> 2. Which directory is the middle process (PID 17994) delivering into?
>
>
> Antony.
>
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Shawn Iverson, CETL
Director of Technology
Rush County Schools
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