Hi,
If you disable the outgoing mailbox(es) and then restart the Email Engine
(restart Service or kill the email daemon process), it should not send any
emails.
Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se
> maybe I was not clear enough.
> The problem is that I don't want my email engine to be stopped.
> I'd like to get incoming emails. Therefore I would also like not to
> disable sendmail.
> What I would like is not sending outgoing emails.
> That was working fine for months. The email engine was running and only
> the Outgoing emails was disabled.
> I was getting incoming emails and nothing was sent out.
>
> The other day I noticed that the email engine was down.
> I started it while the Outgoing was still disabled. I could check this
> through the User tool.
> However people got emails from my platform.
> So my question is how can this be ?
> Is anybody aware of such problem with the email engine ?
> Has anybody experience such a curiosity ?
> Is there soemthing else to check in some config file ?
>
>
> Thansk for your feedback anyway.
> Serouche
>
>
>
> McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3 wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>> Lars:
>>
>> Yes, an arsystem stop followed by an arsystem start should stop the
>> email engine if it is truly disabled. You don't need to stop
>> workflow, if the email engine is truly disabled.
>>
>>
>> If you have access to a terminal or SSH session you can check if the
>> engine is indeed down on a UNIX system. Just run ps -ef, pipe it (|)
>> to a grep session looking for email and if you get no return then it
>> is down. If you do get a answer back, that means that the process is
>> running and needs to be stopped. If you are not a system admin, then
>> get one to help you. If you are, you know what to do to stop it.
>>
>>
>> I find that sometimes the admin tool will tell you one thing and your
>> system another...
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:08 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: email engine sending emails while disabled ?!?!
>>
>>
>> **
>> arsystem stop/start should fix this. No need to disable wf, correct me
>> if I'm wrong ...
>>
>> L ars
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC
>> HQISEC/L3
>>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 3:56 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: email engine sending emails while disabled ?!?!
>>
>>
>> **
>>
>> Serouche:
>>
>> You have to disable the workflow for the e-mail engine or it
>> will definitely send out mail.
>>
>> You did not state which platform you are on, but I know of
>> another method, under UNIX that will also stop mail from being sent
>> and that is to disable or stop the sendmail process.
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Serouche Rahimpour
>>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:38 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: email engine sending emails while disabled ?!?!
>>
>> yes listers indeed that's exacty what happen !
>> And I don't believe in ghosts !
>>
>> Yesterday I started the email engine with
>> /opt/AREmail/emaild.sh start& I got dozen of calls minutes later
>> because this email engine was sending out emails.
>>
>> But when I had a look into the arusertool at AR System Email
>> Mailbox Configuration for the Outgoing entry I could see it is disabled.
>>
>> So could anyone give a help/idea/information/suggestion on how
>> this could had happend ?
>>
>> My env:
>>
>> ars server and email engine 6.00.01 patch 1454 SunOS 5.9 on
>> sun4u
>> DB: Sybase 12.5.3/EBF 12600 ESD#3
>>
>> s.
>>
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