Diagnosing Error?

DNSAdmin dnsadmin at 1BIGTHINK.COM
Fri Nov 14 16:13:30 GMT 2003


At 09:52 AM 11/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Is there a logfile for MailScanner somewhere?  I need to diagnose why
>MailScanner isn't scanning incoming mail.  Nothing has changed about my
>setup - the server had to be rebooted and I restarted MailScanner after the
>reboot was complete.
>
>When I start MailScanner, I get an 'ok' on everything, but when I do a
>status afterwards I get:
>
>[root MailScanner]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner status
>Checking MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:       ok
>          incoming sendmail: ERROR!
>          outgoing sendmail: ok
>
>Sendmail is working fine, but MailScanner isn't scanning any mail.  I am
>using a Cobalt RAQ4 (pity me).

Hi Mike,

I run MS on a RaQ3 and MS/SA on a couple of RaQ4s. Dig in /var/log/maillog
and see what sendmail or MailScanner is complaining about.

What version of MailScanner are you using?

Cheers,
Glenn



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