errors when starting MailScanner with postfix

Brian Parish clicknow at SWIFTDSL.COM.AU
Thu May 20 14:36:26 IST 2004


On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 21:54, Drew Marshall wrote:
> 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
> >
I have specified:

MTA = postfix

in MailScanner.conf

Couldn't see anywhere else to set it.

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