Re: [cobalt-users] Outgoing Sendmail: Error

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:52, Richard Donahue wrote:
> I just happened to check the status of mailscanner and got an error on
> outgoing sendmail. When I stopped and started mailscanner I started getting
> a lot of old messages and I noticed in the mail log that other users on my
> system are getting some old, very old, messages. Some of the delays show
> 30+. I thought mailscanner restarted it'self to avoid things like this. I
> guess I misunderstood. What exactly does the outgoing error mean and why
> has the server seemed to be sending and receiving mail fine up until now?
>

Rich,

  If your server still has "separate" scripts for sendmail and mailscanner, 
often the system will restart sendmail - by the native script - which will 
leave anything currently in the mailscanner queue(s) "hung" with no 
processing.  Most of us save the sendmail script (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail) 
as some other name (sendmail.org) then copy the mailscanner script over it 
(cp mailscanner sendmail) so that when the system or whatever does "sendmail" 
it will do it "correctly"...

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Larry Smith
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