Error messages

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Sounds like you've got sendmail AND mailscanner running. Make sure sendmail
is off, as MS will start it

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
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Tel. + 353 (0)59 9137101
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Nick Thompson
> Sent: 15 December 2003 22:37
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Error messages
>
>
> When I start MailScanner :
>
> chkconfig sendmail off
> chkconfig --level 2345 MailScanner on
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner start
>
> I get a number of error messages
>
> <server name> sendmail[27295]: gethostbyaddr<ip address> failed: 1
> repeated for all the IP addresses on the raq.
>
> sendmail[25862]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
>
> sendmail[25862]: NOQUEUE SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:daemon MTA: server
> SMTP socket wedged: exiting
>
> sendmail[25862]: NOQUEUE SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:daemon MTA: cannot
> bind: Address already in use
>
> After these messages are repeated a number of times, mail seems to be
> passed through, but the 'X-MailScanner: ' is not inserted into the e-mail
> header.
>
> If I try to send an e-mail through the SMTP server I get the following:
>
> <server name> sendmail[28494]: NOQUEUE: localhost {127.0.0.1] did not
> issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ESMTP, during connection to MTA
>
> Then the e-mail is sent.
>
> Has anyone any idea when these messages mean ? or why the header
> information is not inserted
>
> I am attempting to run f-prot, but despite saying it's started, it still
> lets virus infected mail through.
>
> Regards
>