Exim Install

[Steve Evans]

I'm running exim 4.43 running on Fedora. 


Steve Evans
805-756-7517

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Brent Addis
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:53 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Exim Install

 From the looks of it, you are using exim3 (unless you are trying the
exim3 config with exim4, which I don't believe works) , try starting off with exim4.

Steve Evans wrote:

> I'm trying to install MailScanner with exim for the first time.  Here 
> is a list of the steps I have taken.
>
> Install MailScanner (no problems)
> Copied /etc/exim.conf to /etc/exim_scanned.conf Added these lines to 
> /etc/exim.conf
>     spool_directory = /var/spool/exim_incoming
>     queue_only = true
>
> Then down in the routers config section of /etc/exim.conf I added
>     defer_router:
>         driver = manualroute
>         route_list = * 127.0.0.1 byname
>         self = defer
>         verify = false
>
> In MailScanner.conf I modified these lines
>     Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim_incoming/input/
>     Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim/input/
>     MTA = exim
>     Sendmail = /usr/sbin/exim
>     Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim_scanned.conf
>
> Modified the file /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner
>     EXIM=/usr/sbin/exim
>     EXIMINCF=/etc/exim/exim.conf
>     EXIMSENDCF=/etc/exim/exim_scanned.conf
>
> My two queue directories have the permissions of
>     drwxr-x---   5 mailnull mail 4096 Jul 22  2004 exim/
>     drwxr-x---   5 mailnull mail 4096 Nov 30 15:45 exim_incoming/
>
>     (note:  I didn't touch the exim folder, just the exim_incoming)
>
> Then I do a service exim stop and a service MailScanner start.
>
> The mail comes into /var/spool/exim_incoming but nothing happens after 
> that.  It just stacks up there.  If I stop MailScanner, change back 
> the exim.conf file, and start exim mail flows as normal.  If I change 
> the exim.conf file to only specify a new spool directory everything 
> works fine.  So I"m pretty sure I have my queues set up correctly.
> Obviously though MailScanner doesn't scan the mail if I do that.
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm missing?
>
> Steve Evans
> 805-756-7517
>
>
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Brent Addis
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