Re: MailScanner with Sendmail

[Henk.Roose@cwi.nl]

Penbrock wrote:

> Thanks alot I now have MailScanner scanning all my messages :). How ever I
> have one minor(?) problem, sendmail movers messages to the mqueue.in ,
> MailScanner scans them and moves them to the /mqueue like it should,...
> but the messages just sit there. Do I now need to change procmail?

You need to start a queuerunner on that particular queuedirectory.
Something like: sendmail -oQ/var/spool/mqueue -q (assuming that mqueue
is in /var/spool). Try running this manually first and add the -v flag
to see what's happening.
After that you can either do queueruns from cron using the same
command line or start another sendmail daemon (-bd -q15m) process.

Regards,
Henk

> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Collier [mailto:matt@switchmedia.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:22 AM
> To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: MailScanner with Sendmail
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 07 December 2004 00:23, Penbrock wrote:
> > I am a newbie trying to learn our office servers so I have put a system
> up
> > at home just like the ones our office uses for the ISP servers. I am
> > trying to play around to find better ways to work things and I have come
> > across MailScanner. I think I have it all installed on my testing system
> > how ever I can not find any Doc's on how to tell Sendmail to start
> calling
> > MailScanner. Can anyone help me out here or direct me to some doc's on
> > using it on a Debian server with Sendmail?
> >
> > Thanks for any direction you can give this old MS user trying to learn
> > Linux
> >
> > Ken
> 
> You'll need to tell sendmail to just queue the mail for delivery, not
> actually
> deliver it.
> 
> in /etc/mail/sendmail.conf, you'll something like:
> DAEMON_PARMS="-bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
> -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in";
> 
> then get Mailscanner to pick up the mail from the queue, scan it, and put
> it
> back into sendmail's delivery queue.
> 
> in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf:
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue.in
> Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue
> 
> sendmail doesn't directly call mailscanner, both run as separate processes
> and
> just put the necessary files where the other can find them,
> 
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