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

["Robbert Hamburg \(HaVa Web- & Procesdesign\)" <user@xxxxxxx>]

> 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
>

Hi Gavin,

These are the instructions stated in the url i used earlier.

Using that i got overload with errors. couldnt write to spool, couldnt
change directory

> > Jun 17 13:25:39 server2 sendmail[963]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): can not
> > chdir(=/var/spool/mqueue): No such file or directory
> > What did i do wrong ?

I used the instruction from http://www.nuonce.net/cobalt-mailscanner.php

there was no mention for sendmail.cf changes but now it works and with that
instructions i get the errors above.

Robbert