mailscanner service error:invalid mTA

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Wed May 30 06:17:59 IST 2012


Not sure that mailscanner supports qmail
- which by the way hasnt been supported/updated for well over 8 years!

Which would explain the error message - Id suggest trying another mta that
is supported - sendmail, exim or postfix

Martin

On Wednesday, 30 May 2012, shivendra.nt at seml.co.in wrote:

>
> iam using qmail as MTA just i configured mailscsnner and
> mailwatch.....while running service of mailscsnner it error
>
>
>  service MailScanner status
> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
> [root at linuxpc ~]# service MailScanner restart
> Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>          incoming qmail:                                   [FAILED]
> Invalid MTA in /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner
>
>          outgoing qmail:                                   [FAILED]
> Invalid MTA in /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner
>
> Waiting for MailScanner to die gracefully ... dead.
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming qmail:                                   [FAILED]
> Invalid MTA in /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner
>          outgoing qmail:                                   [FAILED]
> Invalid MTA in /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>
>
>
> and also i could not see any message in mailscanner GUI.When iam sending
> mails ,it despatches from mailbox but not delivered to receipant mail
> box....i dont know where these mail going...please provide some help...
>
>
>
> Regards
> Shivendra Nath Tamrakar
>
>
>
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Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK
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