thanks
i will give it a try this week-end and let the list know
but it is diffcult for me to upgrade to sendmail 8.12 because i am using
Sendmail switch , i will call my rep to see
Best Regards
patrick
Scott Adkins wrote:
> --On Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:45 AM -0400 Patrick LIN
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Please someone can help me with that
>> 3 times i post about this problem and never get any answer :((
>>
>> i use sendmail Swict 2.1
>> cyrus 2.0.16
>> on Solaris 2.6
>>
>> my syrus mailer specification :
>>
>> Mcyrus, P=/usr/local/bin/deliver, F=lsDFMnPqAh5@/:|, S=EnvFromL,
>> R=EnvToL/HdrToL, U=cyrus:cyrus, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
>> A=deliver -e -m $h -- $u
>>
>> Mcyrusbb, P=/usr/local/bin/deliver, F=lsDFMnPu, S=EnvFromL,
>> R=EnvToL/HdrToL, U=cyrus:cyrus, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
>> A=deliver -e -m $u
>
>
> So, basically, you are saying that your deliver's are stacking up and not
> actually delivering email. Do you see anything in your imap log? We had
> something similar as well, and it somehow seemed tied to the fact that
> we were using an unix domain socket for LMTP instead of a TCP socket. The
> problem is that deliver can't handle anything other than a unix domain
> socket. So, we solved it by configuring LMTP for TCP socket use and then
> dumped deliver altogether and configure sendmail to talk to LMTP via TCP
> instead. That solved our problem and we haven't had any more issues with
> it since.
>
> If you hack the sendmail.cf file directly, the following is my cyrus
> configuration:
>
> Mcyrus, <TAB> P=[IPC], F=lsDFMnqAw@/:|SmXzu, E=\r\n,
> <TAB> S=EnvFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
> <TAB> U=cyrus:mail, A=TCP [localhost] lmtp
>
> However, I would really use the MC files instead:
>
> The bottom part of the MC file will probably look more like the following:
>
> MAILER_DEFINITIONS
> Mcyrus, <TAB> P=[IPC], F=lsDFMnqAw@/:|SmXz, E=\r\n,
> <TAB> S=EnvFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
> <TAB> U=cyrus:mail, A=TCP $h lmtp
>
> LOCAL_RULE_0
> Rbb + $+ < @ $=w . > <TAB> $#cyrus $: + $1
>
> Whereever <TAB> is listed above, replace it and the surrounding whitespace
> with one or more tabs. It does make a difference...
>
> Also, you should think about upgrading your sendmail to the latest 8.12
> release. There are apparently some problems with sendmail + lmtp + tcp.
> Basically, sendmail will connect to the lmtp server and shove as many mail
> messages down that connection to lmtp as it can. However, if any one of
> those failed, all the messages following it would also fail... This was
> fixed in 8.12.
>
> Finally, the cyrus.conf file has these 2 following lines:
>
> lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp"
> lmtp cmd="lmtpd -a" listen="localhost:lmtp"
>
> You should still keep the lmtpunix socket around in case you need to use
> deliver for anything. Sendmail will no longer need it, but you might need
> it for shell scripts or something. The tcp socket is configured with the
> "localhost:" prepended on it so that you can limit access to the server.
>
> Anyways, give it a try and let us know what happens.
>
> Scott
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