mailscanner setup on debian?

Kurt Yoder kylist at SHCORP.COM
Mon Mar 11 15:33:46 GMT 2002


Matthias Klose said:
> Kurt Yoder writes:
>> Hello list
>>
>> I am trying to set up mailscanner on Debian using the .deb package.
>> The instructions on the mailscanner site don't seem to apply to the
>> Debian setup of mailscanner. At the mailscanner site, I see
>>
>> "Currently, your copy of sendmail will be started by a script such as
>> /etc/init.d/mail or /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail. Somewhere in this
>> script will be the command to start sendmail itself. This should look
>> like this:
>>
>> sendmail -bd -q15m
>>
>> You should change this to the following two lines:
>>
>> sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
>> -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
>>     sendmail -q15m"
>>
>> However, in my Debian install (yes, I am using sendmail, not exim), I
>> can't find any references to "sendmail -bd -q15m". Anyone have any
>> ideas what I'm supposed to do?
>
> at least exim can be configured to be started as a daemon or from
> inetd. I never used sendmail ... I'll happily include a description,
> how to setup mailscanner with sendmail in the package ...
>
>        Matthias

OK; can you send me your docs whenever you get them?

Thanks

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Kurt Yoder
Sport & Health network administrator



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