MailScanner not functioning

[Drew Marshall]

On 26 Aug 2005, at 00:25, Dave Filchak wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have been noticing an increase in spam levels to our users and so I
> started going through the logs and determined that it appears as  
> though
> MailScanner and SpamAssassin have not been functioning. My bad I think
> but I am now trying to figure out what has gone wrong and most
> importantly, how to fix it. Here is what I am finding in the log  
> files:
>
> Aug 25 13:57:53 rosewood spamc[15755]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at
> 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
> Aug 25 13:57:54 rosewood spamc[15755]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at
> 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
> Aug 25 13:57:55 rosewood spamc[15755]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at
> 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
> Aug 25 13:57:56 rosewood spamc[15755]: connection attempt to spamd
> aborted after 3 retries

You need to stop spamc & spamc being started at start up. You haven't  
mentioned which OS you are running so I can't advise how to do this.

>
> Then after I updated to the latest MailScanner, I am seeing this:
>
> Aug 25 15:41:59 rosewood sendmail[23231]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> Aug 25 15:41:59 rosewood sendmail[23231]: daemon MTA: problem creating
> SMTP socket
> Aug 25 15:42:04 rosewood sendmail[23231]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> Aug 25 15:42:04 rosewood sendmail[23231]: daemon MTA: problem creating
> SMTP socket

Likewise here you have your MTA (Sendmail?) started when MailScanner  
tries to start, hence MailScanner can't start it's instance of  
Sendmail so you get these errors. Turn off the 'stand alone' Sendmail  
option and only use MAilScanner to start the TA and it's self.

Drew

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