errors when starting MailScanner with postfix

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 20 14:29:25 IST 2004


At 12:54 20/05/2004, you 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?

And set the correct MTA in /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner so that the init.d
script knows which MTA to start up.
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Julian Field
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