MailScanner not listening for messages

[Gene LeDuc]

Mailscanner doesn't listen on any port.  Sendmail listens on 25, collects the
mail, drops it into a queue directory, then MS processes the mail that it
finds in that queue directory, drops the clean stuff into another queue
directory, and sendmail delivers the clean mail from that queue.

On Thursday 17 June 2004 08:55 am, Peter Titus wrote:
> Hello.... My problem is simple (but the solution may not be).  When I
> start MailScanner, it fails to begin listening on port 25.  This renders
> it useless.  I have version 4.31.6 running on Debian Linux.  It seemed to
> install with no problems using the handy install.sh utility.  All the
> associated files and directories seem to be in their proper places.  I
> have studied the mailscanner.conf file and selected the options I would
> like to start with, however since it is not accepting inbound email, there
> is no way to test if these options are working.
>     Any advice would be much appreciated.  My sendmail is running just
> fine, so I turned it back on after turning killing the MailScanner
> processes (five as per the default setting for child processes).  Sendmail
> is listening normally on port 25.  I test this by using both netstat and
> telnet.  The machine is in a testing environment, and the situation is by
> no means urgent, but I would like to get the thing running so I can put
> the whole system online, with spamassassin and clamav.
>
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