Mailscanner, MTA and postfix questions - any chance of a guide?

[Lindsay Snider]

Pete wrote:
> 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 ?
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> The error is just that the MailScanner service is trying to start 2
>>>> postfix instances and they don't exisist.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Drew
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> Hope you dont mind the feedback? :)
> The postfix/hold dir doesnt exist in postfix 1.1.1.1 installed from
> Freebsd ports

The hold queue was implemented in postfix 2.x.

> I grabbed the postfix 2.019 source and installed that it appeared. I
> tried using the deferred dir in postfix 1 but that didnt work either.

Even if it did work, I suggest staying away from hooking mailscanner up
to the deferred queue.

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> Is there something special people need to do to use postfix 1? (or is
> there any reason ot use postfix 1?)

You need postfix 2.x to use the hold queue method.  We used postfix 1.x
for quite some time before switching to 2.x.  Postfix 2.x is very
stable, bug free and of course has all the features 1 did.  I'd suggest
going with 2.