change from sendmail to postfix - messages now stuck in hold

[Brian Parish]

Well I have no hash_queue_names = line in either main.cf file.  As I've
no idea what it does I tried it on the server with the problem - no
difference.

thanks anyway, but still no wiser.

Brian

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:28, REZEAU St=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9phane?= wrote:
> I've just had the same problem.
> All of my incoming/outgoing messages couldn't be delivered because of the
> missing word "hold" in the line :
>
> hash_queue_names = active, bounce, corrupt, hold, defer, flush, incoming
>
> in my /etc/postfix/main.cf file.
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:26:50 +1000, Brian Parish <clicknow at SWIFTDSL.COM.AU>
> wrote:
>
> >I have two servers running MailScanner - home and office.  The home
> >machine was installed from scratch using a single instance of postfix as
> >documented on the MS site and works fine.  The office machine was
> >running an old version of MS and used two instances of sendmail.  This
> >also worked, but not as well, so I moved the office machine to postfix
> >and installed the latest stable version of MS.
> >
> >Without MS running and without the:
> >
> >header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
> >
> >line in postfix's main.cf file, mail is processed in both directions,
> >but with this line in action and MS running, mail is received into the
> >hold directory and never delivered.
> >
> >I changed /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner to read:
> >
> >MTA=postfix
> >
> >and
> >
> >POSTFIXINCF=/etc/postfix   # Directory containing incoming conf
> >POSTFIXOUTCF=/etc/postfix  # Directory containing outgoing conf
> >
> >MailScanner.conf is set to:
> >
> >Run As User = postfix
> >Run As Group = postfix
> >Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold
> >Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/incoming
> >
> >Permissions on postfix spool directories are set correctly.
> >
> >All this stuff is identical on the two servers.
> >
> >On the one not working I get a repeating message in /var/log/mail/info:
> >
> >MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.29.7 starting...
> >Using Custom Function file
> >/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/MyExample.pm
> >
> >and I see a number of defunct processes.
> >
> >Any bells ringing out there?
> >
> >TIA
> >Brian

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).