Mail not being processed (queues in but not moved to out queue)

[Julian Field]

 From your <defunct> MailScanner processes, I would suggest there is an
error in your MailScanner.conf.
Please check your /var/log/maillog and you will probably find the problem
reported there.

At 23:55 03/04/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am evaluating mailscanner solution but got stucked.
>I've donwloaded the rpm version and installed in my
>fedora core 1 laptop.
>
>The install went smooth and the processes are running.
>  I use exim and have created a /var/spool/exim.in.
>
>The messages are being queued ok but it seems that
>MailScanner is not working since no message ends up in
>the "outgoing" /var/spool/exim/input/ directory.
>
>The /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>
>Run As User = exim
>Run As Group = exim
>Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim.in/input
>Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim/input
>MTA = exim
>Sendmail = /usr/local/exim/bin/exim -C
>/usr/local/exim/configure.out -oMr MailScanner
>Sendmail = /usr/local/exim/bin/exim -C
>/usr/local/exim/configure.out
>Virus Scanners = none
>
>the configure.out was my running configure file for
>exim.
>
>/usr/local/exim/bin/exim -C /usr/local/exim/configure
>-bd
>/usr/local/exim/bin/exim -C
>/usr/local/exim/configure.out -q1m
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
>/usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>[MailScanner <defunct>]
>[exim <defunct>]
>[MailScanner <defunct>]
>[MailScanner <defunct>]
>[MailScanner <defunct>]
>[MailScanner <defunct>]
>
>(ls -l /var/spool/exim.in/input/)
>
>1 exim exim   25 Mar 17 20:45 1B3lew-0002U8-NP-D
>1 exim exim  551 Mar 17 20:47 1B3lew-0002U8-NP-H
>1 exim exim   24 Mar 17 20:49 1B3ljQ-0002XS-RR-D
>1 exim exim  570 Mar 17 20:49 1B3ljQ-0002XS-RR-H
>1 exim exim   25 Mar 17 20:54 1B3lnk-0002Z8-IF-D
>1 exim exim  570 Mar 17 20:54 1B3lnk-0002Z8-IF-H
>1 exim exim   25 Abr  3 17:39 1B9sr3-00015A-3h-D
>1 exim exim  539 Abr  3 18:14 1B9sr3-00015A-3h-H
>1 exim exim  472 Abr  3 18:33 1B9thK-0001MQ-6J-D
>1 exim exim 1097 Abr  3 18:33 1B9thK-0001MQ-6J-H
>
>ls -l /var/spool/exim/input/
>
>0 files.
>
>Help!
>
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