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: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG >> 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: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG >> 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: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG >> 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________________ >> >> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org >> >> __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted >> with HTML in it___ >> >> __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML >> in it___ >> >> __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML >> in it___ > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org