mailscanner trouble

[Matt Kettler]

simon wrote:
> 
> Thanks a lot guy for ur quick replies..
> 
> 
> btw I have already started to upgarde my system fully to CENTOS 5 with the
> latest mailscanner , clamav + spamassassin... and ofcouse sendmail too
> 
> guess this type of problems will be eliminated
> 
> but i was jus wondering why this problem dissapeared when i stopped
> mailScanner .
> 
> that is i jus did a chkconfig MailScanner off and restarted the server and
> so far everythin is fine

It sounds like you've got the "sendmail" service still enabled.

Normally, the MailScanner script launches the two sendmail processes you need.
One acts as a queue-only inbound MTA, and the other as a queue-runner outbound.

If a "normal" sendmail (ie: one that both sends and receives) is running, it
will end up screwing with MailScanner, which expects to be the only one placing
files into /var/spool/mqueue.