Mailscanner getting bypassed and Sendmail still delivering mail.

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions michele at BLACKNIGHTSOLUTIONS.COM
Sat Jan 24 10:31:22 GMT 2004


Very odd



Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Jim VanEtten
> Sent: 24 January 2004 02:44
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner getting bypassed and Sendmail still delivering
> mail.
>
>
> I have disabled the sendmail automatic startup and I let mailscanner
> start it up on it's own as per the instructions.
>
> service sendmail stop
> chkconfig sendmail off
> chkconfig --level 2345 MailScanner on
> service MailScanner start
>
> MailScanner does kick off 2 instances of sendmail just like it does in
> my successfull installations. There are no errors in my maillog or
> messages log.
>
> Thanks
> Jim
>
> Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
>
> >Have you turned off sendmail as per the instructions in the installation?
> >
> >If you run:
> >tail -f /var/log/maillog
> >
> >after doing:
> >/etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner restart
> >
> >Do you see any errors?
> >
> >I suspect that you may have sendmail running as well as MailScanner
> >
> >Michele
> >
> >Mr. Michele Neylon
> >Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
> >http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
> >http://www.search.ie/
> >Tel. + 353 (0)59 9137101
> >Lowest price domains in Ireland
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> >>Behalf Of Jim VanEtten
> >>Sent: 24 January 2004 00:50
> >>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >>Subject: Mailscanner getting bypassed and Sendmail still delivering
> >>mail.
> >>
> >>
> >>Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 2.1 (Panama)
> >>Perl version 5.6.1 built for i386-linux
> >>MailScanner version 4.25-14
> >>SpamAssassin version :  None yet
> >>New RPM install
> >>
> >>Step 1: I have tested sendmail and it works
> >>Step 2: I installed Mailscanner and started it up. There are no errors
> >>in the log file. Email still gets delivered via sendmail as if
> >>Mailscanner was not there. There are no header files for MailScanner.
> >>
> >>I have installed Mailscanner successfully on Fedora core 1 and Redhat
> >>7.0 with no problems. Can someone help me out with what I could be doing
> >>wrong.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>Jim
> >>
> >>
> >>
>



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