Mailscanner & Freebsd

[Roddy Strachan]

Thanks for the help guys.

Looks like its working, however am still getting cannot bind messages,
but it still sends mail and receives it and mainly scans it, so i'll
leave it as is :).

Thanks


Martyn Routley wrote:

> I use 2 cute scripts which run from /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I can't remember
> where they came from.
> One is called mta.sh and starts/stops/restarts sendmail.
> The other (unsurprisingly) is called mailscanner.sh and does the same for
> mailscanner.
>
> I don't have any references to MS in /etc/rc.conf and I have
> sendmail_enable="NO"
>
> I can't get at them at the moment, but if they are wanted, let me know.
>
>
> Martyn Routley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Jim Davis
> Sent: 03 February 2004 22:36
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Mailscanner & Freebsd
>
>
> Roddy Strachan wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Just installed Mailscanner on Freebsd 5.1, however have ran into some
>>problems.
>>
>>I followed the install.FREEBSD instructions, however on system startup,
>>i get
>>
>>Feb  4 08:51:57 mail sm-mta[2129]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>>opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>
>
> Sounds like you already have a sendmail process running, so port 25 is
> already in use.
>
> On my 4.9 system, I ended up putting
>
> sendmail_enable="YES"
> sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn
> -ODeliveryMode=queueonly -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in"
>
> in /etc/rc.conf, and then also ran
>
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m
>
> (by hand, though I should put that in /usr/local/etc/rc.d or something).
>
> Then restart sendmail (ie, cd /etc/mail; sudo make restart) and you
> should see something like
>
> 109  ??  Is     0:00.09 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00 for
> /var/spool/client
>    167  ??  Ss     0:29.89 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
> 52737  ??  Is     0:00.01 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
> /var/spool/mqueue
>
> if you run a ps -ax | grep sendmail
>
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