[TriLUG] Sendmail oddities

mark at thefowles.com mark at thefowles.com
Wed Mar 22 14:28:07 EST 2006


Is the incoming mail thats not being processed in 
/var/spool/MailScanner/....   or  /var/spool/mqueue   or
/var/spool/clientqueue ?

I think the messages are in parts and have long names qfk2349... something
along those lines...  ?

- Mark

> Yeah, it's supposed to, which is why I suspect the buggered MailScanner
> installation as the root of the problem..  but I'm still curious as to
> why sendmail appears to start and be running of its own, according to
> the initscripts, but isn't according to webmin.  I suppose the thing to
> do would be fixing MailScanner...  Eventually I do want its functionality.
>
> ~B
>
> mark at thefowles.com wrote:
>> I may be wrong, but doesn't MailScanner once installed take the place of
>> "sendmail" as far as control?
>>
>>> Hi Gang,
>>>    I think this is related to a buggered MailScanner install, but take
>>> a
>>> look and let me know if it sounds like a good hunch:
>>>
>>> (FC3 server on relatively new hardware)
>>>
>>> - During init, MailScanner tries to start but fails due to
>>> something-or-other.  Bad config, maybe; just haven't had time to futz
>>> with it.
>>> - Later in init, sendmail starts with an [ OK ] result.
>>>
>>> All seems well.  Furthermore:
>>> from somewhere outside, telnet myserver.net 25 results in a normal
>>> conversation with sendmail, from MAIL FROM:<...> through DATA ... all
>>> the way to RSET and QUIT.  200-code success on every command.
>>>
>>> HOWEVER...
>>> The message from said entirely normal conversation seems, by all
>>> appearances, to be falling into the bit bucket--it does not end up in
>>> the recipient's mailbox.  Yet:
>>>
>>> % service sendmail status
>>> sendmail (pid blah blah blah) is running...
>>>
>>> % service dovecot status
>>> dovecot (pid blah blah blah) is running...
>>>
>>> BUT:
>>> when I go to the sendmail module of webmin on that server, the
>>> start/stop button at the bottom is showing the START option, not the
>>> STOP option, and once I click Start Sendmail in webmin, sendmail begins
>>> actually functioning correctly.
>>>
>>> So:
>>> - Why does sendmail indicate itself to be running to the service
>>> command
>>> (and the init script), and carry out valid conversations on port 25, if
>>> it's not really running [correctly]?
>>> - Where do those messages go?
>>> - And how come only webmin is alert enough to realize that sendmail is
>>> in fact /not/ running [properly], and is able to correct it?  What does
>>> it know that I don't? (obviously lots, but still...)
>>>
>>> Thanks a ton,
>>> ~Brian
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ----------------
>>> Brian A. Henning
>>> strutmasters.com
>>> 336.597.2397x238
>>> ----------------
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>>> This message has been scanned for viruses and
>>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>>> believed to be clean.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Brian A. Henning
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> 336.597.2397x238
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