Mailscanner being bypassed?

[Brian Atkins]

Yes. That's it. Thanks.

I'm allowed 1 dumb mistake, right?

Brian Atkins

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Matt Hampton wrote:
> 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