MTA and postfix questions - anychance of a guide?

[Drew Marshall]

Pete said:
> Drew Marshall wrote:
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>>Pete said:
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>>>Drew Marshall wrote:
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>>>>Pete said:
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>>>>>Thanks am trying to follow the word guide you published, but i always
>>>>>get an erro cant find incoming post fix
>>>>>Shall i change the lines in /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner to remove the
>>>>>postfix.in and make it just potsfix ?
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>>>>>POSTFIX=/usr/sbin/postfix
>>>>>POSTFIXINCF=/etc/postfixin.in   # Directory containing incoming
>>>>>configuration
>>>>>POSTFIXOUTCF=/etc/postfix     # Directory containing outgoing
>>>>>configuration
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>>>>You are running RH (or similar) aren't you? If so then yes you will
>>>> need
>>>>to comment out references to the postfix.in commands. This is the bit
>>>>that
>>>>is outstanding before the option becomes openly available. It doesn't
>>>>matter if you are running any non .rpm installation, as you have to set
>>>>up
>>>>the start up scripts yourself. Julain was looking to automate this part
>>>>based on the setup in MailScanner.conf.
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>>>>The error is just that the MailScanner service is trying to start 2
>>>>postfix instances and they don't exisist.
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>>>>Drew
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>>>Yeah my production systems are red hat.
>>>Thanks - also pcre isnt something postfix allows by default. Or doesnt
>>>seem to be to me, seems like this should be regexp ? pcre didnt work on
>>>my super basic/default postfix 2.16 install.  I notice when installing
>>>postfix 1 on freebsd it asks me to compile pcre in, eg its not enable by
>>>default.
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>>>I know NOTHING about perl - is it possible to make that file hashed
>>>instead, so its usable by the most people? or am i waaaaaaay off?
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>>Interesting, pcre just tells Postfix what to expect in the file (Perl
>>Compatible Regular Expressions) however it's only used as it's faster
>> than
>>regexp. I was under the impression that Postfix compiled with pcre as
>>standard (Or at least in all the versions I have installed (none on Red
>>Hat) I have never worried about it), but obviously not. You can use
>> regexp
>>with out problem. just change the line that reads
>>pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks to be regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
>>and that should work.
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>>Drew
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> Cool - i did do that, but just wanted to check - but certainly that was
> postfix 2.016 installed on fedora core1 from source and pcre gave a lot
> of unknown type errors in the maillog. I jumped onto production servers
> running RH9, postfix 2.16 compiled from source and did postconf -m and
> no pcre is listed.
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> No bigdeal, log as i know how to drive it, and there is this entry in
> the archives for others to use.
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> thanks again for all your help

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