[MAILSCANNER] MS 4.45.4-1 installation help

[Alden Levy]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:44:19 -0400, Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos at FIRSTBHPH.COM>
wrote:

>On Thursday 22 September 2005 1:24 pm, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>> Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
>> >On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:45 pm, Julian Field wrote:
>> >>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.
>> >
>> >Hi, Julian.
>> >
>> >No postfix processes running.  Our MTA is sendmail.
>> >
>> >Dimitri
>> >
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>> Dimitri,
>>
>> What's the output from: netstat -tpa|grep :smtp
>>
>> Denis
>
>Hi, Denis.
>
>I worked with a guy from Sherbrooke once.  Nice person (all Canadians are, in
>my estimation).  Sorry for the aside, all.
>
>Here's the output of :
>
>tcp        0      0 *:smtps                     *:*
>LISTEN      1753/stunnel
>tcp        0      0 *:smtp                      *:*
>LISTEN      17087/sendmail: acc
>
>Looks like the last line was concatenated, but still gives the general
>picture.
>
>Dimitri


There are no postfix processes running on my system.  I DID have this
running properly in an earlier version, but I'll keep checking to make sure
my host didn't "fix" anything when they were actually fixing another problem.

The output is:
# netstat -tpa|grep :smtp
tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*                     LISTEN 
    25916/sendmail: acc

I also had the following the first time I ran it
tcp        0      0 engine.engineno9i:37521 mailwash26.pair.co:smtp TIME_WAIT

but that's gone now.

I'm still scratching my head, because it SEEMS to be working (none of my
clients are complaining).

Oddly, service MailScanner status returned:
Checking MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [FAILED]

before I restarted.  Now it's back to:
Checking MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
         incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]

Stranger and stranger....

--Alden

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