errors when starting MailScanner with postfix

Drew Marshall drew at THEMARSHALLS.CO.UK
Thu May 20 12:54:51 IST 2004


Brian Parish said:
> I have presumably missed something in the configuration, because when I
> start MailScanner I get:
>
> # service MailScanner start
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming sendmail: sendmail: invalid option -- O
> sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
>                                                                 [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail: sendmail: invalid option -- O
> sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
>                                                                 [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:                                           [  OK  ]
>
> Postfix is working fine, so there is presumably some tailoring required
> for MailScanner.  What have I missed?

The scrip above is trying to start Sendmail not Postfix. Have you set the
MTA correctly in MailScanner.conf?
>
> TIA
> Brian
>
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