errors when starting MailScanner with postfix

[Julian Field]

At 14:49 20/05/2004, you wrote:
>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.

No, that's already all taken care of. Just set "MTA=postfix" in
/etc/sysconfig/MailScanner and leave the rest alone.

--
Julian Field
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