Cobalt RAQ4 Mailscanner Installation problems

[Mike Kercher]

If you removed those directories, did you reconfigure sendmail to NOT use
/var/spool/mqueue/q* ?

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Steve Knott
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 5:49 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Cobalt RAQ4 Mailscanner Installation problems
>
> Mike
>
>         Those directories were removed as per the
> instructions so I wouldn't know how to setup what your
> suggesting. I was rather hoping the instructions I followed
> would have worked without a hitch.  I read on the cobalt
> forums that others had, had success installing on a raq4 so I
> dived in somewhat blindly but optimistic :) By shutting down
> MailScanner and restarting sendmail I have at least got email
> working again but I would really like to get MailScanner
> working for obvious reasons.
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
>
> On 18 Mar 2004, at 23:02, Mike Kercher wrote:
>
> > I have a rule defined for my queues.
> >
> > In /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf:
> >
> > Outgoing Queue Dir = /etc/MailScanner/rules/outgoing.queue.rules
> >
> > Then, my outgoing.queue.rules:
> >
> > To:     /^[a-g]/                /var/spool/mqueue/q1
> > To:     /^[h-m]/                /var/spool/mqueue/q2
> > To:     /^[n-s]/                /var/spool/mqueue/q3
> > To:     /^[t-z]/                /var/spool/mqueue/q4
> > FromOrTo:       default         /var/spool/mqueue/q5
> >
> > I don't know for sure if this will help you or not.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> >         From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]
> > On Behalf Of Steve Knott
> >         Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 4:11 PM
> >         To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >         Subject: Cobalt RAQ4 Mailscanner Installation problems
> >
> >
> >         Hi,
> >         I have followed the instructions here to the letter:
> >
> >         http://www.qitc.net/support/mailscanner/
> >
> >         Everything went fine until this part:
> >
> >         OK, nearly there. Now we want to stop sendmail and start
> > MailScanner and make sure it stays that way in the event of
> a reboot.
> >
> >         /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner stop
> >
> >         This gave the following output:
> >
> >         [root spool]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner stop
> >         Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
> >         MailScanner: ERROR!
> >         incoming sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.in.pid: No such
> > file or directory
> >         head: /var/run/sm-client.pid: No such file or directory
> >         ok
> >         outgoing sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.out.pid: No such
> > file or directory
> >         ok
> >
> >         so I continued anyway:
> >
> >         [root spool]# ps auxw | grep -i mail
> >         root 4043 0.0 0.2 2596 380 ? S Jan30 0:14 sendmail:
> accepting
> > connections
> >         root 20843 0.0 0.3 1360 504 pts/0 S 20:59 0:00 grep -i mail
> >
> >         [root spool]# chkconfig sendmail off
> >         [root spool]# chkconfig --level 2345 MailScanner on
> >         [root spool]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner start
> >         Starting MailScanner daemons:
> >         incoming sendmail: ok
> >         outgoing sendmail: ok
> >         MailScanner: ok
> >
> >         [root spool]# ps auxw | grep -i mail
> >         root 4043 0.0 0.2 2596 380 ? S Jan30 0:14 sendmail:
> accepting
> > connections
> >         root 20923 0.0 1.0 2584 1300 ? S 21:00 0:00
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
> > -bd -OPrivacyOptions noetrn -ODeliveryMode queueon
> >         root 20929 0.0 1.0 2584 1288 ? S 21:00 0:00
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
> > -q15m -OPidFile /var/run/sendmail.out.pid
> >         root 20946 0.0 7.9 11440 10208 ? S 21:00 0:00 perl
> > -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/Ma
> >         root 20947 2.6 8.5 12196 10952 ? S 21:00 0:00 perl
> > -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/Ma
> >         root 20952 6.8 8.5 12196 10952 ? S 21:00 0:00 perl
> > -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/Ma
> >         root 20956 0.0 0.3 1360 504 pts/0 S 21:00 0:00 grep -i mail
> >
> >
> >         If I do:
> >
> >         [root /root]# tail -f -n100 /var/log/maillog
> >
> >         I get disturbing lines like:
> >
> >         Mar 18 21:32:46 www in.qpopper[22729]: apop "steve"
> >         Mar 18 21:32:46 www in.qpopper[22729]: steve at
> 81.86.100.107
> > (81.86.100.107): -ERR [AUTH] not authenticated
> >
> >         Mar 18 21:33:29 www sendmail[22772]: i2ILXTR22772:
> > SYSERR(root):
> > Can't create transcript file q3/xfi2ILXTR22772: No such file or
> > directory
> >         Mar 18 21:33:29 www sendmail[22772]: i2ILXTR22772:
> > from=<etcetc at hotmail.com>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=1, proto=SMTP,
> > daemon=MTA, relay=[210.0.186.247]
> >
> >         The outcome is I can no longer receive email in any
> mailbox on
> > the server or send email from OpenWebmail it also throws up
> an error
> > like Can't create transcript file?
> >
> >         Does anyone have any ideas how to get Mailscanner running?
> >
> >         In MailScanner.conf I have left the Virus Scanners
> = none as I
> > have installed clamav instead of F-prot but wanted to make sure
> > Mailscanner was working before enabling that.
> >
> >         Thanks
> >         Steve Knott
> >
> >
>