change from sendmail to postfix - messages now stuck in hold

[Julian Field]

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Please kill all your MailScanner processes, set
         Debug = yes
in MailScanner.conf and then run check_mailscanner.
That should print up an error message. If it just sits there, there are no
messages in the incoming queue, so wait for 1 to arrive.

At 01:26 04/10/2004, you 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?

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