New installation configuration question.

Owens, Jerry jerry.owens at FMR.COM
Thu Nov 15 20:30:34 GMT 2007


Thanks for the reply.
 
Here is what I had in /var/log/mail.log. It was complaining about a couple of directories not existing. I created those and restarted everything. I then sent a test message to myself to see if it would get through. I see gmail connecting and delivering the message, but it is still in the hold directory. I tried running MailScanner --debug, but the only option it will take is -v for version listing. Is there an easier way to set this up? All I really need is to be able to filter the mail on my server for spam. I am have one machine to use for the mail server and spam filter.
 
Thanks,
 
Jerry
 

Nov 15 11:27:16 gandalf MailScanner[4622]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.46.2 starting...
Nov 15 11:27:16 gandalf MailScanner[4622]: Could not read file /var/run/MailScanner/MailScanner.pid
Nov 15 11:27:16 gandalf MailScanner[4622]: Error in line 160, file "/var/run/MailScanner/MailScanner.pid" for pidfile does not exist (or can not be read)
Nov 15 11:27:16 gandalf MailScanner[4622]: Read 676 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
Nov 15 11:27:16 gandalf MailScanner[4622]: Using locktype = flock
Nov 15 11:27:43 gandalf postfix/master[4172]: terminating on signal 15
Nov 15 11:27:51 gandalf postfix/master[4732]: daemon started -- version 2.4.5, configuration /etc/postfix
Nov 15 14:36:34 gandalf postfix/smtpd[4845]: connect from badger02000.apple.com[17.254.6.112]
Nov 15 14:36:34 gandalf postfix/smtpd[4845]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from badger02000.apple.com[17.254.6.112]: 550 5.1.1 <jowens at computeryardsale.net>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<News at InsideApple.Apple.com> to=<jowens at computeryardsale.net> proto=ESMTP helo=<badger02000.apple.com>
Nov 15 14:36:39 gandalf postfix/smtpd[4845]: disconnect from badger02000.apple.com[17.254.6.112]
Nov 15 14:39:59 gandalf postfix/anvil[4848]: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:17.254.6.112) at Nov 15 14:36:34
Nov 15 14:39:59 gandalf postfix/anvil[4848]: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:17.254.6.112) at Nov 15 14:36:34
Nov 15 14:39:59 gandalf postfix/anvil[4848]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Nov 15 14:36:34
root at gandalf:/var/log# tail -f mail.log
Nov 15 14:36:34 gandalf postfix/smtpd[4845]: connect from badger02000.apple.com[17.254.6.112]
Nov 15 14:36:34 gandalf postfix/smtpd[4845]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from badger02000.apple.com[17.254.6.112]: 550 5.1.1 <jowens at computeryardsale.net>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<News at InsideApple.Apple.com> to=<jowens at computeryardsale.net> proto=ESMTP helo=<badger02000.apple.com>
Nov 15 14:36:39 gandalf postfix/smtpd[4845]: disconnect from badger02000.apple.com[17.254.6.112]
Nov 15 14:39:59 gandalf postfix/anvil[4848]: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:17.254.6.112) at Nov 15 14:36:34
Nov 15 14:39:59 gandalf postfix/anvil[4848]: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:17.254.6.112) at Nov 15 14:36:34
Nov 15 14:39:59 gandalf postfix/anvil[4848]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Nov 15 14:36:34
Nov 15 14:52:24 gandalf postfix/smtpd[4875]: connect from rn-out-0910.google.com[64.233.170.191]
Nov 15 14:52:24 gandalf postfix/smtpd[4875]: 8484BD9C07A: client=rn-out-0910.google.com[64.233.170.191]
Nov 15 14:52:24 gandalf postfix/cleanup[4879]: 8484BD9C07A: hold: header Received: from rn-out-0102.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.191])??by server1.example.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8484BD9C07A??for <jowens at computeryardsale.net>; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:52:2 from rn-out-0910.google.com[64.233.170.191]; from=<jowensnh at gmail.com> to=<jowens at computeryardsale.net> proto=ESMTP helo=<rn-out-0102.google.com>
Nov 15 14:52:24 gandalf postfix/cleanup[4879]: 8484BD9C07A: message-id=<630adb030711151152n6d69c531w150b546242cc5be4 at mail.gmail.com>
Nov 15 14:52:54 gandalf postfix/smtpd[4875]: disconnect from rn-out-0910.google.com[64.233.170.191]
Nov 15 14:53:43 gandalf imaplogin: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.2.4]
Nov 15 14:53:46 gandalf imaplogin: chdir Maildir: No such file or directory
Nov 15 14:53:55 gandalf imaplogin: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.2.4]
Nov 15 14:53:57 gandalf imaplogin: chdir Maildir: No such file or directory
Nov 15 14:56:14 gandalf postfix/anvil[4877]: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:64.233.170.191) at Nov 15 14:52:24
Nov 15 14:56:14 gandalf postfix/anvil[4877]: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:64.233.170.191) at Nov 15 14:52:24
Nov 15 14:56:14 gandalf postfix/anvil[4877]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Nov 15 14:52:24


	-----Original Message----- 
	From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info on behalf of Martin.Hepworth 
	Sent: Thu 11/15/2007 12:36 PM 
	To: MailScanner discussion 
	Cc: 
	Subject: RE: New installation configuration question.
	
	

	Jerry 

	Anything in /var/log/maillog? 

	Also try "MailScanner --debug" and see if you get any clues. 

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	> -----Original Message----- 
	> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner- 
	> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Owens, Jerry 
	> Sent: 15 November 2007 17:12 
	> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info 
	> Subject: New installation configuration question. 
	> 
	> I have just built an Ubuntu server to process my personal mail. I 
	> installed it using a guide at: 
	> http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06. The setup is using 
	> postfix and courrier to process mail. I installed and configured these and 
	> verified that I could send myself a test message. I then installed 
	> MailScanner using apt-get which installed version 4.46.2-3. I configured 
	> mailscanner to work with postfix from the using postfix page in the 
	> mailscanner documentation. All my mail is coming into 
	> /var/spool/postfix/hold and sitting. It is not getting delivered to me. 
	> Would this likely be a configuration issue with mailscanner or postfix? 
	> Here are the canges I made. 
	> 
	> 
	> How to Set Up Postfix for MailScanner Use 
	> 
	> 
	> 1.    Install Postfix version 2 and get it all working. 
	> 2.    Stop Postfix using a command 
	>       postfix stop 
	> 3.    Make sure you have the chroot jail set up in /var/spool/postfix. You 
	> should be able to see "etc", "usr" and "lib" directories inside 
	> /var/spool/postfix). If you haven't got the chroot jail setup already, 
	> then look in the "examples" directory of the Postfix documentation and you 
	> will find a script in there to set up it up for your operating system. If 
	> you can't find that, then see the "Problems or Errors" section further 
	> down this page. 
	> 4.    At this point, things change from the setup for other MTAs as we can 
	> make it run with just one copy of Postfix, and let Postfix do the "split 
	> MTA" setup for us. 
	> 5.    In the Postfix configuration file /etc/postfix/main.cf add this 
	> line: 
	>       header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks 
	> 6.    In the file /etc/postfix/header_checks add this line: 
	>       /^Received:/ HOLD 
	>       The effect of this is to tell Postfix to move all messages to the 
	> HOLD queue. 
	> 
	> 
	> How to Set up MailScanner for Use with Postfix 
	> 
	> 
	> In your MailScanner.conf file (probably in /etc/MailScanner or 
	> /opt/MailScanner/etc), there are 5 settings you need to change. They are 
	> all really near the top of the file. The settings are 
	> 
	>      Run As User = postfix 
	>      Run As Group = postfix 
	>      Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold 
	>      Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/incoming 
	>      MTA = postfix 
	> 
	> 
	> You will need to ensure that the user "postfix" can write to 
	> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming and /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine: 
	> 
	>     chown postfix.postfix /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming 
	>     chown postfix.postfix /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine 
	> 
	> If you upgrade your copy of MailScanner, unfortunately these directories 
	> will be changed back to being owned by root, so you will have to do those 
	> 2 commands again. 
	> 
	> 
	> Starting It All Running 
	> 
	> If on a system installed using the RedHat RPM distribution, just use the 
	> init.d script to do it all for you: 
	> /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner start 
	> (or on RedHat systems just service MailScanner start) If not using the 
	> RedHat RPM distribution, then 
	> 
	> 1.    Start Postfix 
	>       postfix start 
	> 2.    Start MailScanner 
	>       check_MailScanner 
	> 
	> 
	> Thanks, 
	> 
	> Jerry 




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