maillog logging level

Billy A. Pumphrey bpumphrey at WOODMACLAW.COM
Thu Apr 28 17:51:44 IST 2005


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Billy Pumphrey
IT Manager
Wooden & McLaughlin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steen, Glenn [mailto:Glenn.Steen at AP1.SE]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:01 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: maillog logging level
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Billy Pumphrey
> > Sent: den 19 april 2005 21:45
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: maillog logging level
> >
> >
> > When I set it up I either ran the one in the mailscanner book:
> > Chkconfig --level all sendmail off
> > Chkconfig --level 345 MailScanner on
> > Service sendmail stop
> > Service MailScanner start
> >
> > Or the one on the site
> > http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/linux.shtml
> >
> >    service sendmail stop
> >     chkconfig sendmail off
> >         chkconfig --level 2345 MailScanner on
> >         service MailScanner start
> >
> >
> > I do not recall which one that I did, but that did confuse me a
little
> > because they are different.  I tried researching exactly what
> > this does but
> > I did not get very far.
> They are assentially the same (less the Capital letter, and that one
> setup MS to run at runlevel 2 as well... the --level is just someone
> being explicit:-).
> 
> 
> > I did run what you just said and here is what I found:
> >
> > If I do service MailScanner stop
> >         Then service sendmail status
> > Sendmail is stopped
> >
> > UPDATE UPDATE
> > I feel stupid :), and linux just kicks my behind.  My mistake on
what
> > information I have been giving you, I am sorry :(.  I cannot pass
mail
> > through the machine.  How I have been testing was by sending
> > a email to my
> > external email address, that address gets forwarded to my
> > work address where
> > mailscanner would then process it.  What I forgot was that I
> > had changed my
> > setup.  I no longer was forwarding my email, but I setup a
> > POP3 account on
> > my outlook and it received the email that way.
> > (hope that makes sense)
> >
> > In other words, the email was never passing through mailscanner.
> >
> > So I believe my sendmail chkconfig to be correct.  Now I am
> > really lost
> > on what to check. ??
> Ok, so you don't pass any mail through the system, and don't get any
> logs
> of this nonevent? So... "service MailScanner start", then use the
> connection
> testing examples in the wiki
>
http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:test_troubleshoot
> :mta:connexion
> 
> ... If that works OK, then arrange for mail to be passed through it...
> The
> same as you did for the "other machine"... Be it by FW rules, MX
record
> or
> whatever.
> 
> Or have you done that, and it still doesn't work?
> 
> -- Glenn
> 
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Julian Field [mailto:MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:53 AM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Re: maillog logging level
> > >
> > > Did you kill the sendmail service and stop it from starting when
the
> > > system boots?
> > > As the installation script tells you, you need to do this after
> > > installation (I kept it separate for clarity and also
> > because a lot of
> > > RPM-based systems do not have the "service" command).
> > >     chkconfig MailScanner on
> > >     chkconfig sendmail off
> > >     service sendmail stop
> > >     service MailScanner start
> > >
> > > I would suspect you still have a sendmail process running even
after
> > you
> > > have done the "service MailScanner stop" as it will be left over
the
> > > "sendmail" service, which is not wanted.
> > >
> > > Billy Pumphrey wrote:
> > >
> > > >I think that I have a clue!
> > > >
> > > >I stopped mailscanner via service MailScanner stop.
> > > >Then I sent a message to test to see if it would come
> > through and it
> > did.
> > > >
> > > >So messages are not even going through MailScanner.  At
> > this point I
> > do
> > > not
> > > >know how to trouble shoot why really.  I thought that I
> > configured my
> > new
> > > >server (this one) the same as my last one.  My setup is that
> > MailScanner
> > > is
> > > >the relay between the internet and my exchange server 10.1.1.2.
I
> > will
> > > run
> > > >briefly what I did.
> > > >Edited mailertable to:
> > > >Woodmaclaw.com          esmtp:[10.1.1.2]
> > > >www.woodmaclaw.com      esmtp:[10.1.1.2]
> > > >
> > > >Then I ran the makefile thing (??? Can't recall the command) for
> > > >mailtertable
> > > >
> > > >Other than that I change organization name and such in
> > MailScanner.conf.
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