MailScanner + Postfix can't find
Julian Field
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 19 11:43:17 IST 2004
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I have just tweaked the init.d script so that it doesn't complain so loudly
about not using 2 Postfix instances. It now just points out it is assuming
you are using 1 if it couldn't find the 2nd.
At 11:33 19/10/2004, you wrote:
>On Mon, October 18, 2004 20:06, David Young said:
> > Hi, I've been trying to setup MailScanner with Postfix by following the
> > "Using MailScanner with Postfix" instruction on the mailscanner website.
> > When I startup MailScanner, I get the following error:
> >
> > Oct 13 16:29:36 node1 postfix[28270]: fatal: open /etc/postfix.in/main.cf:
> > No such file or directory
> >
> > The installation guide says that Postfix can handle both incoming and
> > outgoing mail, but doesn't make mention of a postfix.in directory. Anyone
> > using MailScanner with Postfix? And if so, can you provide some pointers
> > (and gotchas) that I need to be aware of to get this thing setup?
> >
> > Thanks a bunch,
> > David
>
>That is still included for a 'legacy' installation of MS with Postfix.
>Just comment them out of your start up script (Or even just start Postfix
>normally and then start MailScanner using the check_mailscanner script -
>depending on your distro).
>
>Basically all that Postfix does is drop all mail in to the hold queue
>file. MailScanner scans it and moves it to the incoming queue for Postfix
>to deliver. This means that you only need 1 Postfix 'instance' and not 2
>as was needed once so there is no need to start postfix.in.
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