First time installation of MailScanner

[Mike Kercher]

try this:

service MailScanner restart;tail -f /var/log/maillog

see if there are any errors in your maillog which you can post back to the
list that might help us out.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Stephen Liu
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 8:06 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: First time installation of MailScanner


Hi Ugo,

Thanks for your response.

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:52, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
- snip -
> > 
> > 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?

Receiving: POP3
Sending:  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.)

SMTP is to send mails
 
> > how to check whether MailScanner is in full function.
> 
> ps -aux | MailScanner

# ps -aux | MailScanner (Enter)
no response/indication

B.R.
Stephen



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