install postfix

[Matthijs Althoff]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:47:36 +0100, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

>Set
>Lock Type = posix

$ cat MailScanner.conf | grep posix

# For Exim, it defaults to "posix".
Lock Type = posix

It was suggested in August I have changed it then to posix and
a lock is created as shown in maillog but without result.

>If you run sendmail with the right command-line args to dump its build
>environment, you will probably find you haven't got FLOCK as the lock
>method. This is by far the most likely cause. If you haven't got flock as
>the lock method, then it will use posix locks instead.

$ sendmail -bt -d0.10 < /dev/null | head -n 10

Version 8.12.11
Compiled with: DNSMAP HESIOD HES_GETMAILHOST LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX
               MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET
               NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF STARTTLS
               TCPWRAPPERS USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT
OS Defines:    ADDRCONFIG_IS_BROKEN HASFCHOWN HASFCHMOD HASFLOCK
               HASGETDTABLESIZE HASINITGROUPS HASLSTAT HASNICE HASRANDOM
               HASRRESVPORT HASSETREGID HASSETREUID HASSETRLIMIT HASSETSID
               HASSETVBUF HASURANDOMDEV HASSTRERROR HASUNAME HASUNSETENV
               HASWAITPID IDENTPROTO NEEDSGETIPNODE REQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC

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