install mailscanner + postfix + freebsd (beginner)
Laszlo Nagy
gandalf at shopzeus.com
Fri Oct 16 08:46:40 IST 2009
I would like to be accurate and tell exactly what I did on my system. I
tried to follow the guides here:
http://www.mailscanner.info/postfix.html
It tells:
> 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.
>
I'm done with #1, #2, #3. I'm not sure if I need to do anything for #4,
I guess I do not. For #5: there is no /etc/postfix. No problem, I have
used /usr/local/etc/postfix/header_checks instead. #6: Done.
Next section from the docs:
> 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
>
>
All right, it is in /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf. Holy
cow, that thing is 2977 lines long! :-)
config file says:
>Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
I do not even have /var/spool/MailScanner. Should I create it by hand?
Will subdirectories be automatically created? Or should I also create
them by hand?
Another question. The default config file says:
> Sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
Shouldn't I change it to /usr/local/sbin/sendmail? (Beacuse I'm using
the postfix port...)
Sorry for being long. Thank you!
Laszlo
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