Having trouble with mqueue.in

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Feb 2 00:59:08 GMT 2006


Tim Grooms spake the following on 2/1/2006 1:54 PM:
> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>
>> Tim Grooms wrote:
>>> Installed MailScanner-4.50.14-1 and ClamAV/SpamAssassin today from
>>> the rpm files
>>> MailScanner-4.50.14-1.rpm.tar.gz and
>>> install-Clam-SA.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Everything seemed to work fine in the installs.  Ran
>>> upgrade_MailScanner_conf and
>>> upgrade_languages.conf and those seemed to go ok as well.
>>>
>>> I am using Fedora Core 4 and sendmail.  I cannot get incoming mail to
>>> come through and get
>>> the following when trying to start MailScanner:
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> [root at www log]# service MailScanner start
>>> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>>>            incoming sendmail: Warning: Option: AuthOptions requires
>>> SASL support (-DSASL)
>> Look for AuthOptions in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Try commenting it out
>> completely.
> 
> Ok, I'll do that next.
>>> /): No such file or directoryspool/mqueue.in
>> Did it really say that? If so, you've screwed up /var/spool/mqueue.in
>> somewhere. Check it printed exactly this. You should have a
>> /var/spool/mqueue.in directory with the same permissions as
>> /var/spool/mqueue.
> Yep, that's exactly what it said and I do have both directorys with the
> same permissions.  When I tell it to stop MailScanner I get the
> following line:
> 
> : No such file or directoryne 315: cd: /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> 
> but there is a /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming folder also.  I can stop
> MailScanner and start sendmail and I can receive mail again.  But once I
> stop
> sendmail and start MailScanner my mail stops coming in again.
>>>                                                                       
>>>                        [OK]
>>>             outgoing sendmail: Warning: Option: AuthOptions requires
>>> SASL support (-DSASL)
>>>                                                                       
>>>                        [OK]
>>>            
>>> MailScanner                                               
>>>               [OK]
>>> [root at www log]#
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> There are no errors in the maillog file everything appears to start
>>> normally. I have checked the
>>> folders and permissions in /var/spool  and all seems OK there as well
>>> as the path in
>>> MailScanner.conf to both incoming and outgoing queues.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?  I'm stumped.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> Tim
> 
It looks like there is something wrong in your MailScanner.conf file. Read it
carefully from top to bottom.

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