MailScanner 4.88.5-3 not being invoked by sendmail

[Julian Field]

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I would start with this:
    1. Log in as root, or "su -" (the "-" is very important, without it 
you don't get all of root's environment such as its "$PATH")
    2. chkconfig sendmail off
    3. chkconfig MailScanner on
    4. service sendmail stop
    5. service MailScanner restart
That will stop your mail bypassing MailScanner.

I would also advise you install some more of the optional Perl modules, 
you are missing rather a lot at the moment. It will catch more spam if 
you install the missing modules. You don't need "SAVI" unless you're 
using Sophos, and you only need "Mail::ClamAV" if you're using "Virus 
Scanners = clamavmodule", and you won't need Net::LDAP. But other than 
those, I would install the rest of them.

If you have anything such as spamd running, you can switch that off. 
MailScanner talks to SpamAssassin more efficiently than that daemon, so 
it's just wasting resources at the moment if it's running.

Mike Watson wrote:
> I've been using MailScanner for some years.  My old mail server 
> (Fedora 3/MS 4.37.7-1/SA 3.0.4-2.fc3/sendmail 8.13) works fine but it 
> is running out of room.  I built a new mail server running Fedora 7, 
> MS 4.66.5-3, and Spamassassin 3.2.4-1.fc7 with sendmail 8.14.
>
> Sendmail works and I can send and receive mail through it.  
> But---MailScanner, although returning a good status, is either not 
> running or not being invoked.  There are no MailScanner or 
> Spamassassin headers being added to e-mail, nor is there any info 
> provided in maillog.
>
> I'm at a quandary.  The MS install appears to run correctly without 
> error.  The customizations to the .conf files are the same as on the 
> working box.  Is there another install step that I missed?
>
> Here is the output of MailScanner -v:
>
>
> [root at cygni ~]# MailScanner -v
> Running on
> Linux cygni.crucis.net 2.6.21-7.fc7xen #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 12:32:24 EST 
> 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> This is Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
> This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.66.5
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.16    Archive::Zip
> 1.04    Carp
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 2.27    Date::Parse
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.74    File::Basename
> 2.09    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.08    File::Path
> 0.19    File::Temp
> 0.90    Filesys::Df
> 1.35    HTML::Entities
> 3.56    HTML::Parser
> 2.37    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.23    IO
> 1.14    IO::File
> 1.13    IO::Pipe
> 2.02    Mail::Header
> 1.86    Math::BigInt
> 3.07    MIME::Base64
> 5.425   MIME::Decoder
> 5.425   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.425   MIME::Head
> 5.425   MIME::Parser
> 3.07    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.425   MIME::Tools
> 0.11    Net::CIDR
> 1.09    POSIX
> 1.18    Scalar::Util
> 1.78    Socket
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.18    Sys::Syslog
> 1.86    Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.30    Archive::Tar
> 0.21    bignum
> missing Business::ISBN
> missing Business::ISBN::Data
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> missing Data::Dump
> 1.815   DB_File
> 1.13    DBD::SQLite
> 1.56    DBI
> 1.14    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.36    Digest::MD5
> 2.11    Digest::SHA1
> missing Encode::Detect
> missing Error
> missing ExtUtils::CBuilder
> missing ExtUtils::ParseXS
> missing Inline
> missing IO::String
> 1.04    IO::Zlib
> missing IP::Country
> missing Mail::ClamAV
> 3.002004        Mail::SpamAssassin
> missing Mail::SPF
> missing Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.19    Math::BigRat
> missing Module::Build
> missing Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.61    Net::DNS
> missing Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
> missing Net::LDAP
> missing NetAddr::IP
> missing Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 2.64    Test::Harness
> missing Test::Manifest
> 1.95    Text::Balanced
> 1.35    URI
> missing version
> missing YAML
> [root at cygni ~]#
>
>
> Mike W
>

Jules

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