{Disarmed} Re: Sendmail/MailScanner for newbie

[Julian Field]

On 04/02/2010 14:41, Ratana Prinyawiwatkul wrote:
> I did all these on my mailserver which is running on Fedora 11 with
> Mail scanner and sendmail
>
>  chkconfig sendmail off
>  service sendmail stop
>  chkconfig MailScanner on
>  service MailScanner start
>  as the install.sh <http://install.sh> tells.
>
> service sendmail status for my mail server?
>
Do not use "service sendmail status" at all on any MailScanner server. 
It will not tell you the truth. Use "service MailScanner status" instead.
>  # service MailScanner status
>  Checking MailScanner daemons:
>  MailScanner:          [ok]
>  incoming sendmail: [ok]
>  outgoing sendmail:  [ok]
> and
>  # service sendmail status
>  sendmail is stopped
>  sm-client (pid 14107) is running...
> But the Mail Server at work which has Fedora 7, sendmail and 
>  MailScanner also.
> When I did the same command, it shows as following:
> # service MailScanner status
>  Checking MailScanner daemons:
>  MailScanner:          [ok]
>  incoming sendmail: [ok]
>  outgoing sendmail:  [ok]
>  which is the same results as my mail server
> But when I do
>  #service sendmail status
> sendmail (pid 30045 30041 ...) is running...
> which is different from my mail server so that I am not sure I 
> configure MailScanner right or not? Why MailServer at work didn't show 
> sm-client since both use Fedora core?
> Thanks
>
>
> --- On *Wed, 2/3/10, Jules Field /<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Jules Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>     Subject: Re: Sendmail/MailScanner for newbie
>     To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>     Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 7:05 PM
>
>     You should disable the "sendmail" service in Fedora and not use it
>     at all once you have MailScanner installed. Just use the
>     MailScanner service to do everything.
>     So, as the install.sh clearly tells you at the end of running it,
>     you should
>     chkconfig sendmail off
>     service sendmail stop
>     chkconfig MailScanner on
>     service MailScanner start
>
>     and never touch the service "sendmail" again.
>
>     On 03/02/2010 18:46, Ratana Prinyawiwatkul wrote:
>     > Hello All,
>     > I am new in *nix system and I want to setup my own mail server.
>     I installed Fedora 11 and use sendmail as MTA, I also installed
>     MailScanner, spamassassin and clamav. I can send and receive mails
>     without any problems. When I checked MailScanner status and got
>     the results as the following
>     > # service MailScanner status
>     > Checking MailScanner daemons:
>     > MailScanner:          [ok]
>     > incoming sendmail: [ok]
>     > outgoing sendmail:  [ok]
>     > but when I do
>     > # service sendmail status
>     > sendmail is stopped
>     > sm-client (pid 14107) is running...
>     > Is there any problems and how do I fix it?
>     > Thanks
>     > Ratana
>     >
>     >
>
>     Jules
>
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