MailScanner on freebsd

[Marc Dufresne]

I am going to explain my understanding of the MailScanner setup. Please
reveiw and let me know if I'm understanding this correctly?

When MailScanner.conf is configured, the following parameters should be
set if I'm using sendmail on FreeBSD 5.4:

#MTA used for the Gateway
MTA=sendmail

#Set how to invoke MTA when sending messages MailScanner has created
(e.g. to sender/recipient saying "found a virus in your message"). This
can also be the filename of a ruleset.
sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail

#Incoming mail queue directory for Sendmail
Incoming Queue Directory=/var/spool/mqueue

#Outgoing mail queue directory for Sendmail
Outgoing Queue Directory=/var/spool/mqueue

#Incoming Queue Directory for MailScanner
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

#Quarantine Directory for MailScanner
/var/spool/MailScanner/quaratine

System Startup should be as follows:

1) #Disable sendmail from loading at system startup
modify /etc/rc.conf to disable sendmail load
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html


Section 23.4.2.3 FreeBSD 5.0-STABLE and Later

/etc/rc.conf

sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

2) #Load MailScanner at system startup.
    #Make sure mailscanner.sh file is located under /usr/local/etc/rc.d
in order to load MailScannner process at startup. Mailscanner.sh should
invoke sendmail and mailscanner process to start scanning/delivering
mail.

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailscanner.sh
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First Problem

I cannot disable sendmail on bootup on FreeBSD 5.4!!!! I tried
everything. Sendmail still loads at startup???????

Second Problem

Once system is completly loaded and sitting at the login prompt, I
receive an error 
 NOQUEUE:SYSERROR(root):opendaemon socket:daeomon IPv4:cannot bind
address already in use

I login, and run ps -ax (This is what I see)

375  ??  Ss     0:00.07 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
379  ??  Is     0:00.00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00 for    
/var/spool/client

426  ??  Is     0:00.01 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/mqueue
430  ??  Is     0:00.01 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/var/spool/client

613  ??  Ss     0:00.02 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner
/usr/local 614  ??  S      0:02.33 /usr/bin/perl
-I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner /usr/local
627  ??  S      0:02.19 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner
/usr/local
630  ??  S      0:02.15 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner
/usr/local
635  ??  S      0:02.17 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner
/usr/local
636  ??  S      0:00.11 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner
/usr/local

Third Problem

I run tail -f /var/log/maillog

I will send test e-mails from the outside and watch sendmail receive
and process incoming mail. Everyone receives e-mails from the outside,
but mailscanner does not scan any messages.

I will issue a mailq to view /var/spool/mqueue directory. Directory is
always empty. 

I'm completely stumped here as to why Sendmail refuses to disable at
startup and MailScanner refuses to scan e-mail messages!!!!!

Any ideas????


Marc Dufresne, Corporate IT Officer
St. Lawrence Parks Commission
13740 County Road 2
Morrisburg, ON  K0C 1X0

E-mail: Marc.Dufresne at parks.on.ca
Voice: 613-543-3704  Ext#2455
Fax: 613-543-2847
Corporate website: www.parks.on.ca

>>> BB <brent.bolin at gmail.com> 11/19/2005 12:38 AM >>>
Don't know if they ever got the list fixed for my replies, so I'm doing
it
direct and through the list.

Change /etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf
sendmail_enable=NONE

Verify mailscanner is starting up with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailscanner
.sh

Think you need to manually create some of the directores. Verify
MailScanner.conf for directories.

tail -f /var/log/maillog will show you the details

The only reason to rebuild sendmail.cf <http://sendmail.cf/> is to
remove
IPv6 stuff. I would use m4 macro for that. Webmin would be a good
choice to
use.

# SMTP daemon options

O DaemonPortOptions=Name=IPv4, Family=inet
O DaemonPortOptions=Name=IPv6, Family=inet6, Modifiers=O
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E


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