just installed mailscanner. cant receive mails

Kourosh mailscanner at MINDWARESYSTEMS.COM
Tue Mar 9 17:28:55 GMT 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 14:09, Henry Harvey wrote:
> > That indicates that the mail can't be delivered for
> > some reason.
> > do a "postqueue -c /etc/postfix -l" and "postqueue
> > -c /etc/postfix.in"
> > to show your queue.  It should show why it can't
> > deliver the mail.
> > Also, how are you delivering it?  Are you using
> > postfix itself, another
> > mda such as maildrop or procmail?  Maildirs?  Do you
>
> I am using the default installation of Postfix
> on Mandrake. If you look at the logs,
> ... mail popper[5519]: Stats:....
>
> > have all your
> > permissions correct?  Did you make sure that postfix
> > was working
> > _before_ you installed MailScanner?
>
> Everything was working perfectly before did
> the changes for MailScanner to work.
>
> I understand that MailScanner actually gets the
> emails to scan from the Incoming Queue and
> after scanning it, writes it to the Outgoing
> Queue right?
>
> So does postfix then gets the emails on the
> Outgoing Queue and delivers it to my users?
> (e.g. puts it in /var/mail/theusername)?
>
> How long does it take to do that? and how
> often? Because from my initial testing, all
> mails received were gone. On the postfix logs,
> it just says "deferred transport". but I can't
> find where all the mails are going.
>
> Thank you

Sorry.  Made a typo.  The correct way to list the queue is the -p
switch, not the -l switch, so postfix -c /etc/postfix -p and postfix -c
/etc/postfix.in -p

Regards.
--
Kourosh <mailscanner at mindwaresystems.com>



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