Installed MailScanner on Solaris 8 - Postfix doesn't start with M ailScanner

[Julian Field]

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Young, Mike wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have installed MailScanner on a Solaris 8 system with postfix,
> SpamAssassin, and Sophos Antivirus.  When I start MailScanner, in the
> logs I see SpamAssassin started,
>
There is no part of SpamAssassin to "start" that is used by MailScanner.
If you mean you are starting spamd, then don't bother as you are just
wasting system resources. MailScanner doesn't use spamd, it uses a more
efficient method.

> but postfix doesn't start.  There is no process listening on port 25.
> I can start postfix by itself.  I have made the changes recommended at
> _http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/postfix.shtml_,
> but it makes no difference (yet).  I know that page is for Linux, but
> it's the closest I've come to a MailScanner/postfix howto.
>
What does you MailScanner init.d script look like?

> Here are settings from MailScanner.conf:
>
> Run As User = postfix
>
> Run As Group = postfix
>
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold
>
> Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/incoming
>
> Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>
> Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
>
> MTA = postfix
>
> Sendmail = /usr/sbin/postfix
>
> Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/postfix
>
> Anyone have experience with this?  Once I get postfix starting with
> MailScanner, I can move on to the A/V configuration.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike.
>
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