[MAILSCANNER] MS 4.45.4-1 installation help

Dimitri Yioulos dyioulos at FIRSTBHPH.COM
Thu Sep 22 20:46:58 IST 2005


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On Thursday 22 September 2005 3:25 pm, Scott Silva wrote:
> Dimitri Yioulos spake the following on 9/22/2005 11:49 AM:
> > On Thursday 22 September 2005 2:33 pm, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> >>Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> >>>On Thursday 22 September 2005 2:00 pm, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> >>>>Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> >>>>>On Thursday 22 September 2005 1:24 pm, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> >>>>>>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,
> >>>>
> >>>>This indicates that you have only one process (pid=17087) that has port
> >>>>25 (smtp) open.  This is good.
> >>>>
> >>>>Now, stop MailScanner and redo the netstat command to make sure there
> >>>> is no sendmail running anymore.  If there is a process open on port
> >>>> 25, kill it and then restart MS.
> >>>>
> >>>>Denis
> >>>
> >>>Denis,
> >>>
> >>>Just for my own edification (I like that word), what will this
> >>> accomplish?
> >>
> >>Dimitri,
> >>
> >>Don't you have a problem with MS starting sendmail giving you an error
> >>message?  If not, I apologize for wasting your time...
> >>
> >>Denis
> >
> > Denis,
> >
> > No waste of time at all.  The OP and I both had spamassassin --lint
> > spitting out errors after we upgraded to spamassassin 3.1.0.  It killed
> > DCC, razor, and bayes on my system.  Sendmail started fine.
> >
> > Dimitri
>
> Did you correct the other errors after the upgrade?
> Spamassassin 3.1.0 has new config options for DCC and razor, but it
> should only have bayes issues if upgrading from Spamassassin 2.64 or lower.
> Any errors showing up in the maillog?
> Try service MailScanner restart & tail -f /var/log/maillog
> Watch for a few minutes to look for errors, and CTRL-C to stop the tail
> process.

Thanks.   I haven't reupgraded to 3.1.0 yet (rolled back to 3.0.4), but I'll 
try your suggestions when I do.

Dimitri

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