Re: [cobalt-users] Outgoing Sendmail: Error

["Richard Donahue" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Smith" <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Outgoing Sendmail: Error


> 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"...
>
> -- 
> Larry Smith
> SysAd ECSIS.NET
> sysad@xxxxxxxxx
>

Thanks Larry. If I do that, will sendmail still stop and start correctly
using the Cobalt Admin GUI?

Rich
EBS