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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=793460008-15072003>If
you're working in a chroot environment and send a mail, using the 'mail'
command, mail starts a sendmail process, but that sendmail is within the
chroot itself and so can't see the real system mailqueue (or its
configuration?). Is that your problem?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=793460008-15072003>You
could try using pine (or similar) configured to send mail to locahost:25 rather
than invoking sendmail directly. You could even hijack the mail command in
the chroot environment and replace it with smtpclient (<A
href="http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/">http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/</A>)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Chris Yuzik
[mailto:chris@FRACTALWEB.COM]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 15 July 2003 04:15<BR><B>To:</B>
MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<BR><B>Subject:</B> outbound mail gets stuck when
MailScanner running<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>I've done extensive testing and now
understand what's going on...but I don't know how to fix it.<BR><BR>When
MailScanner is running, all mail sent from any of the user accounts (on my
virtual domains), will get stuck on the server. In fact, it doesn't even go
into a queue directory anywhere. Each time a message is sent, it just sits in
the root of the virtual directory from which it came from.<BR><BR>When
MailScanner is running, each time I attempt to send a message I get two new
files in /home/virtual/fractalweb.com (which would be the root directory for
the virtual domain when it's chrooted). One file always starts with a "d" and
the other a "q"; the rest of the file name is the same.<BR><BR>My last test
generated these:<BR>-rw------- 1
root
root 3 Jul
14 19:54 dfh6F2sot32240<BR>-rw------- 1
root
root 1040 Jul 14 19:54
qfh6F2sot32240</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>If I copy these files to (the real)
/var/spool/mqueue and type "sendmail -q" then they're actually sent out.
Otherwise, they just sit there and collect dust.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Incoming mail from the outside (my
server) world works great.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>My guess is there is some sort of config
file somewhere that needs a good tweak. Problem is...I'm stuck again and I
need help.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>"Help please." :-)</FONT></DIV>
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