Starting postfix from mailscanner

[Alex Broens]

On 7/1/2009 12:50 PM, mog wrote:
> 
> 
> Alex Broens wrote:
>> On 6/30/2009 11:11 PM, Steve Barnes wrote:
>>>> I know that when you install mailscanner with postfix, you are
>>>> supposed to disable postfix starting on its own because mailscanner
>>>> will turn it on. How does it do it and when?
>>>
>>> Interesting. I've not seen any documentation to support this
>>> (MailScanner starting Postfix itself) in all my reading to date -
>>> where did you read about it?
>>>
>>> I run Postfix with MailScanner and simply use the rc.d/rc.conf to
>>> start Postfix and then start MailScanner...did I miss something? :)
>>
>> check out:
>>
>> http://mailscanner.info/postfix.html
>>
>> h2h
>>
>> Alex
> 
> I don't see any reference to mailscanner trying to start postfix on the 
> http://mailscanner.info/postfix.html web page, and would be very shocked 
> if that were the case.

you'd survive that shock :-)

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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
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iirc, if you use install via Jules' installer package, on some Red Hat 
flavour MailScanner's init script controlls Postfix.

see /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner

How it works on other OSs/Distros, I can't tell.