MailScanner is not processing files in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Daniele Antoniazzi]

Thanks Ed,

I've followed all the instructions i the docs for installing on Solaris.
The only thing I've not done is to install Spam Assassin, but I hope
this is not mandatory.

Bye
Daniele

Ed Tate wrote:

> Did you make the changes for starting sendmail?
>
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/sendmail.shtml
>
>
> Ed Tate (etate01 at hazelwoodschools.org)
> Coordinator of Technology Services
> Hazelwood School District
> Florissant, Missouri
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Daniele Antoniazzi
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 7:24 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: MailScanner is not processing files in /var/spool/mqueue.in
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> I've installed MailScanner following the instructions at:
>
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/other.shtml
>
> on a Solaris machine. My platform is:
>
> Solaris 2.6
> perl v5.6.0 built for sun4-solaris
> MailScanner 4.12-2
> no SpamAssassin
> fresh install from tarball
>
> I've checked all paths in conf files, and everything seems consistent.
> I receive correctly the mails in /var/spool/mqueue.in, but afterwards
> nothing happens...
>
> I've enabled mail scanning in /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
> I've started MailScanner with:
>
> /opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner
>
> and I can see MailScanner with ps, I see running:
>
>   /usr/local/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib
> /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
>
> I've also monitored it with truss, it sleep for a while and then wakes
> up and forks, I've also seen that it fails on this:
>
> stat64("/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/15742", 0x000ED998) Err#2 ENOENT
>
> where 15742 is just a number increasing.
> No file is created in:
>
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>
> and nothing disappears from:
>
> /var/spool/mqueue.in
>
> Could you please help me?
>
> Ciao
> Daniele
>
>
>