errors when starting MailScanner with postfix

[Brian Parish]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:29, Julian Field wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Julian Field

That was the crucial bit.  I obviously also need to duplicate the
postfix settings to create the incoming instance.  That doesn't appear
to be documented in the shiny new manual I'm reading.  Is there a link
handy to a document I should read about how to do that?

thanks again
Brian

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