mailscanner + procmail + gentoo

[Valmiki N. Ramsewak]

And in that specific order?

valmiki
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:26:34PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> You need to start 3 processes:
>
> 1. A sendmail with "-bd" to supply the SMTP service.
> 2. A sendmail with "-q15m" (or some other time after the "-q" to deliver
> the outgoing messages.
> 3. A MailScanner to join the two together.
>
> "check_MailScanner" only starts up number 3. You need to start up numbers 1
> and 2 as well. Sample command lines for these are in the installation
> documentation for the tar distribution.
>
> At 17:56 11/06/2003, you wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:34:36PM +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> > I'm using gentoo. I got mcafee and sendmail working.. I also installed
> >> > mailscanner, and made the changes to the /etc/conf.d/sendmail file
> >> > (/etc/init.d/sendmail reads the options from there) It all starts up
> >fine,
> >> > but nothing gets scanned by mailscanner, and I'm not sure why.. I
> >don't see
> >> > it in the headers.....
> >>
> >> You should STOP sendmail. The mailscanner script should run sendmail.
> >>
> >
> >Well yea I figured that out. But this is the problem. In gentoo you have a
> >dir /etc/init.d with all the startup scripts, just like in redhat...
> >then you use a script rc-update to add and remove programs you want to
> >start on the different boot levels.
> >I have been doing the check_mailscanner thing and then an nmap and no port
> >25 is open...... So i'm guessing something is wrong big time?
> >
> >Any help appreciated, I'll make a temp acct if someone wants to look
> >around my system...
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Valmiki
>
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