[MAILSCANNER] MS 4.45.4-1 installation help

[Julian Field]

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Julian Field wrote:

> Scott Silva wrote:
>
>> Alden Levy spake the following on 9/21/2005 5:33 PM:
>>  
>>
>>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:57:39 -0700, Scott Silva 
>>> <ssilva at SGVWATER.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Alden Levy spake the following on 9/21/2005 4:26 PM:
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the duplicate messages.  I realized that I had written the
>>>>> messages first from my mail program, then from the web interface, 
>>>>> and--after
>>>>> realizing that noone would get these messages--from the jiscmail 
>>>>> interface.
>>>>>
>>>>> In any event, I still have one problem, but it still looks like it's
>>>>> working, namely:
>>>>>       incoming sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.in.pid: No such 
>>>>> file or
>>>>> directory
>>>>>
>>>>> There was no file named sendmail.in.pid, so I copied sendmail.pid 
>>>>> over.
>>>>> While the system works, when I check the status of MailScanner, I 
>>>>> get:
>>>>> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>>>>        MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>>>>        incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>>>>>        outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I seem to have the same services running as I had this 
>>>>> morning.  I
>>>>> am able to send emails to accounts on this box from outside 
>>>>> accounts, as
>>>>> well as send emails from accounts on this box to accounts outside 
>>>>> this box
>>>>> (and, of course, emails between accounts on this box).
>>>>>
>>>>> Suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alden
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> Delete the copied pid, then stop MailScanner and run
>>>> touch /var/run/sendmail.in.pid
>>>> then restart MailScanner and see if that helps.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I tried that. When I check service MailScanner status, I get:
>>> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>>         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>>         incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>>>         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>>
>>> And in my mail logs, I get:
>>> Sep 21 20:35:42 engine sendmail[27938]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>>> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>>> Sep 21 20:35:42 engine sendmail[27938]: daemon MTA: problem creating 
>>> SMTP socket
>>> Sep 21 20:35:45 engine sendmail[28052]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>>> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>>> Sep 21 20:35:45 engine sendmail[28052]: daemon MTA: problem creating 
>>> SMTP socket
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks, again,
>>> Alden
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> Did you stop sendmail and run chkconfig sendmail off as per the install
>> docs?
>>
> Can you check if you have any postfix processes running? Many RedHat 
> systems ship using Postfix by default instead of sendmail. There is a 
> tool somewhere to switch which MTA you are using on your RedHat setup.
>
The tool is called system-switch-mail-nox, it's in /usr/bin so will be 
on your $PATH already.

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