MailScanner not listening for messages

[Mike Andrews]

If you're using sendmail then your machine should have two or more
sendmail processes
running:

o       one listening on port 25, which receives mail and puts it on the
"in" queue
        for processing by MailScanner;
o       one or two queue runners to take mail from MailScanner's output
queue and
        send it on to   the intended recipients if it's malware-free and
not spam, or to
        any recipients designated by the MailScanner config file for spam
or infected
        mail;
o       others that actually do the delivery.

There also should be some MailScanner processes (here they're
        /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib
/opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner)
that do the scanning. They're the middlemen between the port-25 listener
sendmail
instance and the queue-runner sendmail instances.

MailScanner itself does not listen on port 25.

How, exactly, are you starting your MailScanner and sendmail instances?

I use
        /opt/MailScanner/bin/rc.MailScanner start
to do the job.

Mike Andrews
Information Security
Technical Services Division
Oklahoma Dept. of Transportation
mandrews at odot.org



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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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