On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 18:25, Chris Yuzik wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have SpamAssassin and MailScanner running on my RedHat 7.3 machine. > The server hosts about a dozen domains. I run sendmail and procmail. > Almost everything works great. Almost. > > Mail from the outside world works as expected, gets scanned and scored > and so forth. I've got SA's threshold set to 5 and am running DCC and > Razor...in the two days I tested it over the weekend, it correctly > identified 99%+ of spam. > > My big problem is that sometimes mail from within the server never > arrives...never bounces...just goes to a black hole. > > I'll list some examples so it makes more sense: > > 1) let's pretend that domain1.com and domain2.com are hosted on my > server. external1.com is not hosted on my server. > 2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] can both sent to and receive > email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] just fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] can also sent to and receive email from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to. Internal to the outside world works. > 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] can not email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and vice-versa. > Internal to internal is not working. > 4) it gets stranger. [EMAIL PROTECTED] can send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], but not the other way around. If scott replies to > dave's message, then dave never gets the reply. > > As I said before, the message doesn't bounce or anything...it just > goes into a black hole and is never seen again. > > When I installed MailScanner, the documentation said I was supposed to > do the following (which is what I did): > 1) "service sendmail stop" > 2) "service MailScanner start" > > In an attempt to troubleshoot the problem, I tried the following: > 1) "service MailScanner stop" > 2) "service sendmail start" > 3) "service MailScanner start" > You don't want to do that, service MailScanner start runs sendmail for you.
Mailscanner runs two instances of sendmail, one to receive mail and one to deliver it, it sounds to me like something is getting lost between them, but without more information it's impossible to tell if the problem is with one of the sendmails or mailscanner itself. Try watching a tail -f /var/log/maillog for a while, Is there anything interesting in the maillog when mail goes missing? You should see a log line from the mail arriving at the server, followed by 2 or 3 log lines from mailscanner, and finally a log line as the mail goes through the second instance of sendmail. How much of that do you get? -- Yorkshire Dave -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
