MAILSCANNER Digest - 21 Apr 2003 to 22 Apr 2003 (#2003-113)

[Julian Field]

At 14:09 23/04/2003, you wrote:
>Ok.  After i restart the server the maillog shows the following:
>
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 sendmail[2205]: starting daemon (8.12.8): SMTP
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 sendmail[2210]: starting daemon (8.12.8):
>queueing at 00:15:00
>Apr 23 07:47:00 inet3 MailScanner[2229]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.14-9 starting...
>Apr 23 07:47:05 inet3 MailScanner[2229]: Using locktype = flock
>Apr 23 07:47:05 inet3 spamd[2239]: server started on port 783 (running
>version 2.44)

You don't need to start spamd at all, why are you doing that?

>Apr 23 07:47:10 inet3 MailScanner[2406]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.14-9 starting...
>Apr 23 07:47:12 inet3 MailScanner[2406]: Using locktype = flock
>Apr 23 07:47:20 inet3 MailScanner[2407]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.14-9 starting...
>Apr 23 07:47:22 inet3 MailScanner[2407]: Using locktype = flock
>Apr 23 07:47:30 inet3 MailScanner[2408]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.14-9 starting...
>***Several more times

Correct.


>Messages file has the following:
>Apr 23 07:46:55 inet3 xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner: Starting MailScanner daemons:
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner:          incoming sendmail:
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner:  succeeded
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner: ^[[60G
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner:
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner:          outgoing sendmail:
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner:  succeeded
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner: ^[[60G
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner:
>Apr 23 07:46:56 inet3 MailScanner:          MailScanner:
>Apr 23 07:47:00 inet3 MailScanner:  succeeded
>Apr 23 07:47:00 inet3 MailScanner: ^[[60G
>Apr 23 07:47:00 inet3 MailScanner:
>Apr 23 07:47:00 inet3 rc: Starting MailScanner:  succeeded
>Apr 23 07:47:03 inet3 spamassassin: spamd startup succeeded
>
>
>Mailscanner status:
>
>[root at inet3 log]# service MailScanner status
>Checking MailScanner daemons:
>         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>
>I just sent a Non-Spam test email and it is sitting in the mailq.  This is
>what maillog shows:
>
>Apr 23 08:05:06 inet3 sendmail[2507]: h3ND56Ij002507:
>from=<ralexand at inet3.hoodindustries.com>, size=1177, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<000801c30998$e64079d0$7bc8a8c0 at ralexand>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA,
>relay=[192.168.200.123]
>Apr 23 08:05:06 inet3 sendmail[2507]: h3ND56Ij002507:
>to=<ralexand at hoodindustries.com>, delay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30456,
>stat=queued
>Apr 23 08:05:08 inet3 MailScanner[2229]: New Batch: Forwarding 1 unscanned
>messages, 1642 bytes
>Apr 23 08:05:08 inet3 MailScanner[2229]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Apr 23 08:05:13 inet3 imapd[2510]: imap service init from 192.168.200.123
>Apr 23 08:05:13 inet3 imapd[2510]: Login user=ralexand
>host=[192.168.200.123]
>Apr 23 08:05:16 inet3 MailScanner[2229]: Unscanned: Delivered 1 messages
>Apr 23 08:05:16 inet3 MailScanner[2229]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>Starting

In your MailScanner.conf file, what is "Delivery Method" set to? Are the 2
Sendmail settings pointing to the correct location of your sendmail binary?

I assume that's what the problem is, as you never actually told us what you
thought was wrong :-)
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Julian Field
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