Mailscanner + postfix

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Jun 6 11:53:31 IST 2004


At 01:42 06/06/2004, you wrote:
>On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 06:22, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 20:57 04/06/2004, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I see the use of postfix with Mailscanner was changed. before it used to
> > >have 2 instances of postfix running, now it uses only one. Does
> anybody know
> > >how to change it from the 2 running postfixes to one ?
> >
> > Just change you header_checks and /etc/postfix files to match the new
> setup.
> >
> > >especially the redhat startupscript is good, any replacement ?
> >
> > The startup script will work with either, just remove your /etc/postfix.in
> > setup completely, and it won't try to use it.
> > --
> > Julian Field
>Hmmm. I had it running nicely with the two instances.  I've now gone
>through the steps described.  Everything seems to start normally and
>
>service MailScanner status
>
>says all is OK, but fetchmail says: SMTP connect to localhost failed
>
>What have I missed?

You have probably forgotten to re-enable the SMTP service in master.cf,
which you will have disabled in /etc/postfix when it handled outgoing mail
only.
--
Julian Field
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