[Mail scanned] postfix and Mailscanner Installation

[Pete russell]

As I am really after something that will work with the LEAST amount of
me messing with config files - if I have a completely untouched install
of sendmail (installed with Red Hat OS installation), and I install
MailScanner - will mail Scanner configure all sendmail bits for me - eg
after install of MailScanner the machine will receive and relay mail?

I would still need to figure out how to tell sendmail to only receive
mail addressed to either of my domains, and then some how provide a
transport map on which 2 IPs to route mail for each Domain? Where will I
fin the info to complete this? I don't really have a big preference for
an MTA, I just want to get this pilot off the ground, in place and start
testing mail routing and spam detection.

We have a small organization and prefer to forward all mail that is
marked as Spam to one email account, until we figure out our detection
settings - then we would like to reject mail that is Spam - is the
method most use? Or do most use tagging and let mail users use local
mail rules to filter?

Thanks in advance
Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Pete russell
Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2003 7:20 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [Mail scanned] postfix and Mailscanner Installation

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I have performed all the actions an TRIPLE
checked them as required in the Postfix installation guide on the
mailscanner site.

I have those dirs.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of damian
Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2003 7:05 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [Mail scanned] postfix and Mailscanner Installation

hi,

Think you need a postfix.in and postfix.

Check the documentation on using postfix with mailscanner.

Rgds

Damian

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:56, Pete russell wrote:
> Hi there I have been try unsuccessfully to install Postfix and
> mailscanner on a fresh red Hat 9 machine.
>
> I create a new group postdrop and new user postfix, without shell or
> home directory.
>
> Install Postfix from source using make then make install commands and
> leave all options as default.
>
> I set up postfix so I can send mail to it, when MX records are pointed
> at it. I have changed the options in master.cf for chroot, for
> everything listed except pipe, proxymap, local and pipe.
>
> I set up a transport map so that I can out mail to our 2 mail domains
-
> domain1.com = smtp:10.1.10.3 and domain2.com = smtp:10.1.4.3
>
> Install MailScanner and follow the instructions for postfix on the
> mailscanner install guide.
>
> I have a second linux machine with a fake DNS and MX pointing to the
> private IP of the mailscanner box - so from this machine when I send
> mail to user at domain1.com the mail is sent and received by the
> mailscanner box and I get a message on the maillog about the mail
being
> deferred, but that's it, nothing else eve happens, no log entries and
I
> can find any files in any of the mailscanner or postfix queues.
>
> Is there any way of turning on more detailed logging, like you can do
> with sendmail, maybe this will help me trace the message through my
> mailscanner system?
>
> Is there anything I can do to either postfix or mailscanner to ensure
> mail is accepted and routed, without being scanned - then once I have
> proved mail routing is working, turn on mailscanner anti spam, and
then
> maybe turn on spam assassin and then lastly clamav - seems crazy for
me
> as a newbie to try and test with everything turned up/on - so I have
not
> entered the line for clamav in the mailscanner.conf, and have spam
> assassin support turned off.
>
>
>
> What do I do to postfix or mailscanner to just let the mail route, no
> spam tests, esp DNS as I am on a private network without any real DNS.
>
> Is it possible to just have postfix installed, and completely not
> touched and then run mailscanner install and this make everything
work?
>
> IF sendmail is installed (eg when you install the OS) is it possible
to
> install mailscanner and everything will work, without changing
anything
> in sendmail?
>
> Where should I look for the mail that is deferred?
>
> How do I turn on more detailed logging - currently I have a console
open
> with tail -f /var/log/maillog running
>
> Thanks in advance for ANY help anyone can offer. (I know they are a
lot
> of questions, but I thought easier If I put them in one email, rather
> than a few)
> Pete
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damian <damian at science.nus.edu.sg>