RE: [cobalt-users] mailscanner on raq550 gives an error

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > # queue directory
> > > O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue/q*
> > >
> > >
> > > to =/var/spool/mqueue/
> > >
> > > right ??
> > >
> >
> > Yep, thats right (remembering to stop sendmail, copy any files
> out of the
> q?
> > directories to the main queue directory first).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Got it working indeed now. Maybe i write an howto on this.

Robert - I'm concerned that this method would not be an orthodox or correct
method of doing an install. I'm sorry I didn't see this thread earlier.

Its my understanding that you should never edit the sendmail.cf file
directly for a start but in this case it is unnecessary anyway.  I have
installed MailScanner on a number of Cobalt RaQs including RaQ550 and Qube
and have never edited the sendmail.cf file to get it to work.  Here is the
portion of the script I use to handle the mail queue bits

#Create symlink to move mqueue.in to /home/spool/
rm -r /var/spool/mqueue.in/
mkdir /home/spool/mqueue.in
cd /var/spool
ln -s ../../home/spool/mqueue.in/ mqueue.in
rm -r mqueue/q*

Doing this plus the other required bits within MailScanner requires no
editing of the sendmail.cf and works fine.

Hope this helps though possibly too late for some

Regards

Gavin