Mailscanner being bypassed?

[Matt Hampton]

Brian Atkins wrote:

> At this time, I have moved the previous sendmail.[cf|mc] back in place
> and restarted both Mailscanner and sendmail separately seveal times, but
> it appears that I'm now getting a very heavy influx of spam messages.
> Also, the X headers (Mail Header = X-%org-name%-MailScanner:) seem to
> have disappeared.
> 

That's because you have probably started sendmail as a standalone system
and not started it through MailScanner.

You should not start sendmail through it's start up scripts.

Assuming you are on a Linux distribution:

chkconfig sendmail off

service sendmail stop
service MailScanner stop
service MailScanner start

matt