First time installation of MailScanner

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Stephen Liu [mailto:satimis at ICARE.COM.HK]
> Envoyé : Monday, September 22, 2003 4:49 AM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : First time installation of MailScanner
> 
> 
> Hi all folks,
> 
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> 
> RH9.0 workstaton
> Evolution 1.4
> =============
> 
> My email software continues downloading MS silly junk mails 
> bouncing all
> the time.  I just have MailScanner installed and running.
> 
> # service MailScanner start
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming sendmail:              [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail:              [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:                      [  OK  ]
> 
> Still I observe the abovementioned junk mails downloaded. 

How do you get your mail?  POP3? IMAP?  SMTP?

You must get your mail by smtp to be able to use MailScanner (at least in its default config, I don't know if it can filter up against Pop or imap.)
 
> Kindly advise
> how to check whether MailScanner is in full function.

ps -aux | MailScanner