Fresh installation problems - Postfix

[Ignacio M. Sbampato]

Julian, guys,

can you give me some clue about this issue? I tried different things but i
can't get it working :-\
I was already using MailScanner in a box with Sendmail, but this is the
first time with Postfix.

Thanks,

Ignacio

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ignacio M. Sbampato" <listas at VIRUSATTACK.COM.AR>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:48 PM
Subject: Fresh installation problems - Postfix


> Guys,
>
> i recently installed a box with MailScanner 4.30.3-2 and Postfix 2.0.19.
> Since i started the system, all messages are being queued, because of the
> following reason:
>
> ----- STATUS -----
> connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: server dropped connection without sending
> the initial greeting
> ----- STATUS -----
>
> The messages seems to be scanned by MailScanner because i can see
> MailScanner messages in /var/log/maillog.
>
> For install the box, i did the following steps:
>
> * Enable chroot jail, running '/etc/postfix/postfix-chroot enable'.
> * Enable header_checks in '/etc/postfix/main.cf'
> * Create file header_checks on postfix folder and added the line to hold
> messages.
> * Modify params for postfix in MailScanner.conf
> * Change owner to postfix on quarantine and incoming folders of
MailScanner
> * Modify /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner to use postfix
>
> All this instructions were taken from:
>
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/postfix.shtml
>
> On some place i found that this error is common if you use amavis, because
> it can be blocking the IP used by Postfix to send mails. Does MailScanner
> the same thing? How can i solve this problem?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ignacio
>
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