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

[Drew Marshall]

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.
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>>>> 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? :)

Never :-)

> The postfix/hold dir doesnt exist in postfix 1.1.1.1 installed from
> Freebsd ports

That explains the PCRE issue as this seems to have been implemented in
Postfix 2.x (Wasn't aware of these differences. I have never studied
Postfix 1.x and only seriously used 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.
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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?)

I guess, turning it round, why use Postfix 1.x? Postfix 2.x is stable
and bug free, with more features and has been so for a number of years.
There is no reason not to but you will struggle using MailScanner as I do.

Drew

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