spam getting through without even being checked

[Ken A]

Chris Yuzik wrote:
> Ken A wrote:
>> did you disable sendmail?
>>
>> chkconfig sendmail off
>> service sendmail stop
>>
> Ken,
> 
> I think you're on to something. That said, if I turn off sendmail, then 
> my machine stops listening for incoming connections on port 25.

Try restarting MailScanner AFTER you issue the two commands above. It 
should start incoming and outgoing sendmail processes.

If you installed from the MailScanner rpm, you should have seen these 
instructions at the end of the install process telling you to disable 
sendmail with the commands above (not sure about the tar.gz), since the 
MailScanner init script handles starting and stopping sendmail processes 
after MailScanner is installed.

If you have your original sendmail init script still running, it may 
claim port 25 and so the one that MailScanner tries to start is unable 
to bind to the port.. See your /var/log/maillog for sendmail errors 
about this.

Ken
Pacific.Net


> One hint as to what might be going on would be what I see when I start 
> up sendmail with a "service sendmail start":
> 
>    Starting sendmail:                                         [  OK  ]
>    Starting sm-client:                                        [  OK  ]
> 
> 
> This seems unusual to me. I've looked through the sendmail_app_init file 
> in /etc/rc.d/init.d but honestly, shell scripting isn't my thing (so not 
> exactly sure what I'm looking at). Any thoughts?
> 
> Chris
> 
>